Serious C road crash in Fife KY16 on 7 September 2010 at 01:45 involving a Suzuki Ignis
A Suzuki Ignis crashed on a C road in Fife at 01:45 on Tuesday 7 September 2010. The 27-year-old male driver and a 21-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Sep 2010
- Tuesday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Ignis
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.31699, longitude -2.8977, in the KY16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010941001706
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 2013.
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Ignis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,490 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Ignis)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Ignis)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2010941001706 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.