M90 crash in Fife on 2 March 2013 at 09:10 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and an Iveco Daily van were involved in a crash on the M90 in Fife at 09:10 on Saturday 2 March 2013. The 30-year-old male driver of the Iveco Daily van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2013
- Saturday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Iveco Daily
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.09802, longitude -3.39375, 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
- 2013941300399
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 March 1999.
Serious
Audi A8 crash on the M90 in Fife, 22 March 1999
24 m awayRef 1999949901318
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the M90 in Fife, 21 June 1995
33 m awayRef 1995949501770
Slight
Scania crash on the M90 in Fife, 28 March 2012
76 m awayRef 2012941200536
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the M90 in Fife, 1 July 2006
203 m awayRef 2006940601504
Serious
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the M90 in Fife, 28 May 2013
214 m awayRef 2013941300930
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the M90 in Fife, 21 April 2001
220 m awayRef 2001940101421
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Iveco Daily
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Iveco Daily)
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 2013941300399 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 2013.