A915 crash in Fife on 23 September 2015 at 22:50 involving a Ford Grand C-Max
A Ford Grand C-Max crashed on the A915 in Fife at 22:50 on Wednesday 23 September 2015. The 47-year-old male driver and a 48-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2015
- Wednesday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Grand C-Max
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.16265, longitude -3.09554, in the KY1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015941500743
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 915
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 33%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 67%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 2016.
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A915 in Fife, 4 September 2016
23 m awayRef 2016941600720
Serious
Car crash on the A915 in Fife, 17 September 1980
38 m awayRef 1980948003761
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A915 in Fife, 4 August 1995
68 m awayRef 1995949502253
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A915 in Fife, 19 April 1981
75 m awayRef 1981948101568
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A915 in Fife, 16 October 2023
89 m awayRef 2023991363554
Slight
Car crash on the A915 in Fife, 13 October 1987
96 m awayRef 1987948704119
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Grand C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Grand C-Max)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Grand C-Max)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2015941500743 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.