Unclassified road crash in Fife KY8 on 25 October 2014 at 15:30 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Vauxhall Antara were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Fife at 15:30 on Saturday 25 October 2014. The 28-year-old female driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 2014
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Vauxhall Antara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.18957, longitude -3.03742, in the KY8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Methil.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014941401423
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 74 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 1995.
Slight
Renault 9 crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 21 April 1995
74 m awayRef 1995949501240
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 3 September 1993
75 m awayRef 199394LM0332C
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 18 August 1996
75 m awayRef 1996949602333
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 23 July 1989
77 m awayRef 1989948903270
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 1 May 1985
77 m awayRef 1985948501619
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 7 August 1998
83 m awayRef 1998949802288
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Antara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 2014941401423 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.