Serious C road crash in Fife KY15 on 19 July 2010 at 04:00 involving a Kawasaki VN900 motorcycle
A Kawasaki VN900 motorcycle crashed on a C road in Fife at 04:00 on Monday 19 July 2010. A 30-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 23-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jul 2010
- Monday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki VN900
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.27357, longitude -2.88844, in the KY15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010941001373
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 340 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B941 in Fife, 7 March 1979
340 m awayRef 1979947901045
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Fife, 9 January 2014
631 m awayRef 2014941400074
Slight
HGV crash on a C road in Fife, 8 September 2008
724 m awayRef 2008940802129
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the B940 in Fife, 29 October 1994
774 m awayRef 1994949402968
Serious
Car crash on the B941 in Fife, 21 February 1981
819 m awayRef 1981948100747
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B940 in Fife, 1 August 2002
864 m awayRef 2002940202889
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki VN900
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 903 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki VN900)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki VN900)
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 2010941001373 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 2010.