A915 crash in Fife on 27 July 2016 at 19:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jul 2016
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.32928, longitude -2.80584, in the KY16 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Andrews.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016941600592
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 26%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 74%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2001.
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A915 in Fife, 16 May 2001
4 m awayRef 2001940101766
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A915 in Fife, 13 May 2002
7 m awayRef 2002940201870
Serious
Foden crash on the A915 in Fife, 6 April 1992
12 m awayRef 199294SA0101B
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 6 February 1993
12 m awayRef 199394SA0031C
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A915 in Fife, 8 May 1995
17 m awayRef 1995949501279
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the A915 in Fife, 12 March 2011
19 m awayRef 2011941100530
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 56, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 2016941600592 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 2016.