A955 crash in Fife on 23 December 2008 at 10:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2008
- Tuesday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.18808, longitude -3.02278, in the KY8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Methil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages, Fife, KY8 3JD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008940802939
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 955
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the A955 in Fife, 14 May 2012
10 m awayRef 2012941200829
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A955 in Fife, 20 June 2016
14 m awayRef 2016941600504
Slight
Car crash on the A955 in Fife, 1 October 1993
14 m awayRef 199394LM0380C
Slight
Car crash on the A955 in Fife, 1 December 1989
14 m awayRef 1989948905639
Serious
Taxi crash on the A955 in Fife, 29 June 1996
14 m awayRef 1996949601794
Slight
Car crash on the B932 in Fife, 13 March 1981
14 m awayRef 1981948101073
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 74 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2008940802939 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.