Unclassified road crash in Fife KY12 on 31 October 2008 at 16:10 involving a Fiat Cinquecento
A Fiat Cinquecento crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 16:10 on Friday 31 October 2008. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2008
- Friday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Cinquecento
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.07562, longitude -3.46517, 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 7EF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008940802441
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Frost or ice
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 29 April 2001
10 m awayRef 2001940101541
Serious
Car crash on the A976 in Fife, 30 March 1979
10 m awayRef 1979947901353
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A976 in Fife, 1 August 2001
10 m awayRef 2001940102681
Slight
Car crash on the A976 in Fife, 12 December 1980
10 m awayRef 1980948005106
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 30 January 2009
10 m awayRef 2009940900216
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 3 March 2021
12 m awayRef 2021991025537
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Cinquecento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Cinquecento)
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 2008940802441 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.