Unclassified road crash in Fife KY11 on 22 October 2017 at 07:18 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Fife at 07:18 on Sunday 22 October 2017. A 27-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 2017
- Sunday, 07:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.03223, longitude -3.36622, in the KY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dalgety Bay.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017941700646
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 October 2019.
Serious
MG 3 crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 2 October 2019
38 m awayRef 2019940883574
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 26 April 2019
70 m awayRef 2019940019219
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 18 March 2011
74 m awayRef 2011941100566
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 30 August 2002
100 m awayRef 2002940203268
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Fife, 3 September 1998
100 m awayRef 1998949802450
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 14 August 2001
102 m awayRef 2001940102868
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 49 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017941700646 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.