Unclassified road crash in Fife DD6 on 23 May 2009 at 12:40 involving a Mazda 3
A Mazda 3 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Fife at 12:40 on Saturday 23 May 2009. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 2009
- Saturday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.43993, longitude -2.86896, in the DD6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tayport.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009940901076
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 114 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 27 January 1987
114 m awayRef 1987948700297
Serious
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 22 August 2023
123 m awayRef 2023991344468
Serious
Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 22 September 2000
136 m awayRef 2000940003421
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 9 December 1998
233 m awayRef 1998949803475
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 15 November 1986
255 m awayRef 1986948604433
Serious
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 22 April 1996
362 m awayRef 1996949601206
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 3)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2009940901076 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.