A955 crash in Fife on 28 May 2014 at 15:00 involving a Volkswagen Urban
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 2014
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Urban and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.17322, longitude -3.04287, in the KY8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages, Fife, KY8 1DS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014941400878
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 955
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 930
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 September 1991.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A955 in Fife, 30 September 1991
5 m awayRef 199194TD0281A
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the B930 in Fife, 13 May 2022
6 m awayRef 2022991178353
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A955 in Fife, 5 October 2001
9 m awayRef 2001940103524
Serious
MG Maestro crash on the A955 in Fife, 8 March 1994
9 m awayRef 1994949400758
Fatal
Subaru Impreza crash on the A955 in Fife, 10 April 2004
9 m awayRef 2004940401291
Serious
Kia Carens crash on the A955 in Fife, 20 August 2009
9 m awayRef 2009940901752
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Urban
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
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 2014941400878 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 2014.