M90 crash in Fife on 28 March 2012 at 13:30 involving a Scania lorry
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 2012
- Wednesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.09746, longitude -3.39446, in the KY12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012941200536
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 90
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 76 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2013.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the M90 in Fife, 2 March 2013
76 m awayRef 2013941300399
Serious
Audi A8 crash on the M90 in Fife, 22 March 1999
100 m awayRef 1999949901318
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the M90 in Fife, 21 June 1995
108 m awayRef 1995949501770
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the M90 in Fife, 1 July 2006
127 m awayRef 2006940601504
Serious
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the M90 in Fife, 28 May 2013
139 m awayRef 2013941300930
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the M90 in Fife, 21 April 2001
144 m awayRef 2001940101421
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Scania
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,867 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2012941200536 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 2012.