A921 crash in Fife on 4 December 2017 at 14:20 involving a Seat Exeo
A Seat Exeo and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A921 in Fife at 14:20 on Monday 4 December 2017. The 66-year-old male driver of the Seat Exeo and the 27-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2017
- Monday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Exeo and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.11197, longitude -3.15476, in the KY1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kirkcaldy Central, Fife, KY1 1EX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017941700755
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Fife
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 921
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 1995.
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A921 in Fife, 18 November 1995
9 m awayRef 1995949503327
Slight
Car crash on the A92 in Fife, 25 January 1979
9 m awayRef 1979947900397
Serious
Car crash on the A921 in Fife, 22 September 1989
9 m awayRef 1989948904210
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A921 in Fife, 19 September 2017
19 m awayRef 2017941700579
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 14 January 2019
20 m awayRef 2019941900019
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 16 November 2008
23 m awayRef 2008940802579
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Exeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Exeo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2017941700755 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.