Serious M90 crash in Fife on 21 July 2013 at 16:55 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a car were involved in a crash on the M90 in Fife at 16:55 on Sunday 21 July 2013. The 20-year-old male driver of the Fiat Punto and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Fiat Punto were seriously 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
- 21 Jul 2013
- Sunday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.08655, longitude -3.40223, 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
- 2013941301199
- 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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 2009.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M90 in Fife, 6 March 2009
28 m awayRef 2009940900539
Slight
Mercedes crash on the M90 in Fife, 12 December 1991
45 m awayRef 199194TD0364A
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the M90 in Fife, 21 December 2016
49 m awayRef 2016941601040
Slight
Car crash on the M90 in Fife, 31 October 1985
75 m awayRef 1985948504550
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the M90 in Fife, 13 May 1980
138 m awayRef 1980948001894
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 16 October 1985
161 m awayRef 1985948504198
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2013941301199 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.