A92 crash in Fife on 12 August 2017 at 15:20 involving a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle
A car and a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A92 in Fife at 15:20 on Saturday 12 August 2017. The 49-year-old male rider of the Triumph Bonneville motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2017
- Saturday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Triumph Bonneville
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.32383, longitude -3.10612, in the KY15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017941700496
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 June 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A92 in Fife, 3 June 2015
4 m awayRef 2015941500462
Slight
Car crash on the A914 in Fife, 19 May 1979
5 m awayRef 1979947902072
Slight
Volvo crash on the A92 in Fife, 16 January 2002
5 m awayRef 2002940200233
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A92 in Fife, 5 October 2025
6 m awayRef 2025991650611
Slight
Skoda Yeti crash on the A92 in Fife, 28 November 2014
7 m awayRef 2014941401533
Slight
Van crash on the A914 in Fife, 10 July 1987
11 m awayRef 1987948702607
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 53 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Triumph Bonneville
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 790 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Triumph Bonneville)
- 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 2017941700496 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.