Unclassified road crash in Fife KY12 on 24 December 2008 at 13:10 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 13:10 on Wednesday 24 December 2008. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2008
- Wednesday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.08002, longitude -3.48783, in the KY12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunfermline.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008940802946
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 909
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A907 in Fife, 4 October 1980
60 m awayRef 1980948003959
Slight
Van crash on the A907 in Fife, 19 February 1984
60 m awayRef 1984948400796
Serious
Car crash on the A907 in Fife, 2 January 1979
64 m awayRef 1979947900141
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A907 in Fife, 24 May 2019
76 m awayRef 2019940024119
Slight
Van crash on the A907 in Fife, 18 November 2019
78 m awayRef 2019940903602
Serious
Car crash on the A907 in Fife, 16 May 1989
89 m awayRef 1989948902098
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2008940802946 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.