Unclassified road crash in Fife KY11 on 14 April 2012 at 12:00 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Fife at 12:00 on Saturday 14 April 2012. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Apr 2012
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.0333, longitude -3.37064, in the KY11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012941200645
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 November 2003.
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 25 November 2003
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Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 9 October 1982
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Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 22 August 1998
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Serious
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224 m awayRef 2011941100566
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 26 April 2019
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2012941200645 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.