Unclassified road crash in Fife KY11 on 21 December 2010 at 18:38 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a Ford Mondeo taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Fife at 18:38 on Tuesday 21 December 2010. A 59-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Avensis was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2010
- Tuesday, 18:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.04937, longitude -3.41231, 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
- 2010941002569
- 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
- 40 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2007.
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 23 March 2007
10 m awayRef 2007940700710
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Fife, 27 August 1996
160 m awayRef 1996949602624
Slight
Van crash on the B980 in Fife, 21 March 1980
212 m awayRef 1980948001181
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 16 November 2011
221 m awayRef 2011941102108
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 26 September 2011
222 m awayRef 2011941101738
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 4 November 2010
224 m awayRef 2010941002109
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- 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 2010941002569 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.