A907 crash in Fife on 7 June 2008 at 22:30 involving a Mitsubishi Carisma
A Mitsubishi Carisma and a Ford Galaxy were involved in a crash on the A907 in Fife at 22:30 on Saturday 7 June 2008. The 24-year-old male driver of the Mitsubishi Carisma was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jun 2008
- Saturday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Carisma and Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.07735, longitude -3.47777, in the KY12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunfermline. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunfermline Central, Fife, KY12 8DE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008940801302
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 907
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2002.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A907 in Fife, 23 June 2002
At the same spotRef 2002940202394
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A907 in Fife, 9 March 2005
At the same spotRef 2005940500546
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A907 in Fife, 22 February 2002
10 m awayRef 2002940200844
Slight
Car crash on the B9155 in Fife, 15 October 1990
10 m awayRef 1990949004336
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A907 in Fife, 27 February 2007
10 m awayRef 2007940700493
Serious
Subaru Legacy crash on the A907 in Fife, 1 August 2010
14 m awayRef 2010941001454
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Carisma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,834 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Carisma)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2008940801302 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fife road accident statistics for 2008.