Serious M90 crash in Fife on 28 May 2013 at 17:00 involving a Mitsubishi Carisma
A Mitsubishi Carisma crashed on the M90 in Fife at 17:00 on Tuesday 28 May 2013. A 72-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 50-year-old female driver and a 23-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 May 2013
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Carisma
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.09656, longitude -3.39598, in the KY12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013941300930
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 July 2006.
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the M90 in Fife, 1 July 2006
11 m awayRef 2006940601504
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the M90 in Fife, 21 April 2001
27 m awayRef 2001940101421
Slight
Car crash on the M90 in Fife, 15 February 2010
103 m awayRef 2010941000339
Slight
Scania crash on the M90 in Fife, 28 March 2012
139 m awayRef 2012941200536
Slight
Mercedes crash on the M90 in Fife, 2 September 1995
172 m awayRef 1995949502442
Serious
Renault 19 crash on the M90 in Fife, 19 May 2002
213 m awayRef 2002940201937
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Carisma
Car
- 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 and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Carisma)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Carisma)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Carisma)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2013941300930 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.