B917 crash in Fife on 21 August 2013 at 10:30 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A Volkswagen Touran and a Renault Scenic were involved in a crash on the B917 in Fife at 10:30 on Wednesday 21 August 2013. The 35-year-old female driver of the Renault Scenic 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
- 21 Aug 2013
- Wednesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Touran and Renault Scenic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.13494, longitude -3.38107, in the KY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kelty. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cowdenbeath, Fife, KY4 0EF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013941301715
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 917
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 December 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the B917 in Fife, 1 December 1983
7 m awayRef 1983948305140
Slight
Renault 25 crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 14 December 2002
7 m awayRef 2002940204793
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B917 in Fife, 20 April 1999
8 m awayRef 1999949900404
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B917 in Fife, 10 February 1989
8 m awayRef 1989948900598
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 11 August 1984
15 m awayRef 1984948403409
Serious
Volvo crash on the B917 in Fife, 31 March 2004
17 m awayRef 2004940401146
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Scenic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Scenic)
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 2013941301715 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.