B942 crash in Fife on 5 September 2015 at 19:15 involving a Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B942 in Fife at 19:15 on Saturday 5 September 2015. The 50-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2015
- Saturday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSXR 750 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.22233, longitude -2.8299, in the KY9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015941500674
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 942
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 37%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 63%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2004.
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B942 in Fife, 10 November 2004
19 m awayRef 2004940404029
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on the B942 in Fife, 2 December 2019
23 m awayRef 2019940904690
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B942 in Fife, 15 May 2010
27 m awayRef 2010941000946
Slight
Car crash on the B942 in Fife, 18 February 1981
40 m awayRef 1981948100757
Serious
Scania crash on the B942 in Fife, 14 August 2020
56 m awayRef 2020990972639
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B942 in Fife, 22 July 2004
81 m awayRef 2004940402537
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 750
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,696 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 50, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 750)
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 2015941500674 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.