Unclassified road crash in Fife KY11 on 21 January 2017 at 12:00 involving a Suzuki GSR 750 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSR 750 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 12:00 on Saturday 21 January 2017. The 24-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2017
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSR 750
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.05793, longitude -3.4416, in the KY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunfermline. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunfermline South, Fife, KY11 4QG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017941700058
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A823 in Fife, 28 October 2003
8 m awayRef 2003940303766
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on the A823 in Fife, 2 December 2014
10 m awayRef 2014941401563
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A823 in Fife, 23 February 2006
14 m awayRef 2006940600552
Slight
Scooter crash on the A8230 in Fife, 2 May 1987
17 m awayRef 1987948701785
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A923 in Fife, 30 October 2005
18 m awayRef 2005940502431
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A823 in Fife, 20 October 1996
22 m awayRef 1996949603030
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSR 750
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSR 750)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017941700058 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 2017.