B940 crash in Fife on 15 June 2011 at 09:24 involving a Yamaha FJR 1300 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jun 2011
- Wednesday, 09:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha FJR 1300
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.26977, longitude -2.8278, in the KY9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011941101097
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 940
- 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
- 36%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 64%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B940 in Fife, 1 March 2002
41 m awayRef 2002940200904
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B940 in Fife, 1 July 2004
576 m awayRef 2004940402311
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B940 in Fife, 13 September 1998
576 m awayRef 1998949802486
Slight
Car crash on the B940 in Fife, 21 February 1981
905 m awayRef 1981948100790
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the B940 in Fife, 17 October 2013
1.1 km awayRef 2013941301777
Slight
Car crash on the A915 in Fife, 28 November 1982
1.3 km awayRef 1982948204765
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha FJR 1300
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha FJR 1300)
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 2011941101097 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 2011.