A92 crash in Fife on 19 November 2016 at 22:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on the A92 in Fife at 22:15 on Saturday 19 November 2016. A 24-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2016
- Saturday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.14436, longitude -3.14257, in the KY1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kirkcaldy East, Fife, KY1 3LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016941600924
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 92
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2003.
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the A92 in Fife, 11 July 2003
5 m awayRef 2003940302460
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A92 in Fife, 3 March 2023
13 m awayRef 2023991282887
Serious
Yamaha FZS 1000 crash on the A92 in Fife, 10 June 2005
56 m awayRef 2005940501287
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A92 in Fife, 21 June 2003
58 m awayRef 2003940302230
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 7 March 2008
77 m awayRef 2008940800586
Slight
Scania crash on the A92 in Fife, 20 November 1998
77 m awayRef 1998949803277
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2016941600924 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.