B980 crash in Fife on 1 January 2009 at 12:20 involving a Hyundai Getz
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2009
- Thursday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Hyundai Getz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.0447, longitude -3.42755, in the KY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rosyth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunfermline South, Fife, KY11 8GR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009940900010
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 980
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 1998.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A823 in Fife, 20 May 1998
At the same spotRef 1998949801438
Serious
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the B980 in Fife, 17 November 1995
20 m awayRef 1995949503317
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B980 in Fife, 23 September 1983
22 m awayRef 1983948304000
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B980 in Fife, 8 August 1991
22 m awayRef 199194DU0619A
Slight
MAN crash on the B980 in Fife, 16 March 2000
22 m awayRef 2000940001059
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B980 in Fife, 3 March 2002
28 m awayRef 2002940200934
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,490 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Getz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,341 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Getz)
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 2009940900010 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 2009.