- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 2009
- Thursday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.18812, longitude -3.04985, in the KY8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages, Fife, KY8 2EG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009940901118
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 915
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2019.
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A915 in Fife, 12 December 2019
11 m awayRef 2019940909056
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A915 in Fife, 26 October 2016
20 m awayRef 2016941600846
Serious
Car crash on the A915 in Fife, 25 December 1990
41 m awayRef 1990949005661
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A915 in Fife, 5 February 1988
41 m awayRef 1988948800789
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B932 in Fife, 21 March 1994
42 m awayRef 1994949400897
Serious
Car crash on the A915 in Fife, 29 June 1981
45 m awayRef 1981948102666
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2009940901118 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.