Unclassified road crash in Fife KY8 on 24 December 2012 at 00:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Fife at 00:30 on Monday 24 December 2012. A 26-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2012
- Monday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.19727, longitude -2.99724, in the KY8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leven, Kennoway and Largo, Fife, KY8 4FU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012941202170
- 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
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 2000.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 14 May 2000
At the same spotRef 2000940001838
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 4 March 2000
10 m awayRef 2000940000937
Slight
Honda CRV crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 2 March 2011
10 m awayRef 2011941100456
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 23 March 1993
20 m awayRef 199394LM0120C
Serious
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 21 September 1994
20 m awayRef 1994949402629
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 24 June 1984
32 m awayRef 1984948402534
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 2012941202170 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.