Unclassified road crash in Fife KY11 on 16 December 2010 at 12:45 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Kia Picanto were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Fife at 12:45 on Thursday 16 December 2010. The 23-year-old female driver of the Kia Picanto was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on an icy roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2010
- Thursday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Kia Picanto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.0724, longitude -3.40946, in the KY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunfermline.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010941002493
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Kia Picanto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Picanto)
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 2010941002493 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.