Unclassified road crash in Fife KY2 on 8 January 2015 at 08:50 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Fife at 08:50 on Thursday 8 January 2015. A 6-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 2015
- Thursday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.1251, longitude -3.19527, in the KY2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkcaldy.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015941500022
- 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
- 20 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 18 April 1999
3 m awayRef 1999949900359
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 25 November 1989
19 m awayRef 1989948905299
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 14 July 1995
31 m awayRef 1995949502075
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 11 March 1998
39 m awayRef 1998949800697
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 4 October 2000
47 m awayRef 2000940003621
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 28 June 1986
48 m awayRef 1986948602518
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2015941500022 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 2015.