Serious unclassified road crash in Fife KY10 on 26 July 2020 at 16:45 involving a Triumph Speed Master 865 motorcycle
A Triumph Speed Master 865 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 16:45 on Sunday 26 July 2020. The 52-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jul 2020
- Sunday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Triumph Speed Master 865
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.27464, longitude -2.63758, in the KY10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020990967347
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2016.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A917 in Fife, 11 June 2016
5 m awayRef 2016941600467
Slight
Mitsubishi Lancer crash on the A917 in Fife, 25 October 2006
7 m awayRef 2006940602443
Slight
Van crash on the A917 in Fife, 15 October 1988
14 m awayRef 1988948804905
Serious
Honda CBR1100XX crash on the A917 in Fife, 3 June 2012
24 m awayRef 2012941200943
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the A917 in Fife, 28 November 2004
24 m awayRef 2004940404303
Fatal
Ford Orion crash on the A917 in Fife, 22 May 1993
24 m awayRef 199394TD0148C
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Triumph Speed Master 865
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 865 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Triumph Speed Master 865)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2020990967347 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 2020.