Serious A876 crash in Fife on 30 June 2011 at 13:13 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A876 in Fife at 13:13 on Thursday 30 June 2011. A 39-year-old female passenger on the Suzuki motorcycle was seriously injured and the 39-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jun 2011
- Thursday, 13:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.07201, longitude -3.73622, in the FK10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011941101299
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 876
- Speed limit
- 70 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, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Movano crash on the A876 in Fife, 2 June 2016
34 m awayRef 2016941600462
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A876 in Fife, 27 July 2009
100 m awayRef 2009940901578
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A876 in Fife, 11 November 2018
125 m awayRef 2018941800610
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A876 in Fife, 10 January 2015
178 m awayRef 2015941500049
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A876 in Fife, 11 June 2017
183 m awayRef 2017941700371
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 16 May 1991
234 m awayRef 199194KF0066A
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 937 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 39, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 39, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 2011941101299 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.