Serious B9129 crash in Fife on 17 August 2020 at 17:10 involving a Lexmoto ZSX 125 motorcycle
A Lexmoto ZSX 125 motorcycle and a Land Rover Freelander were involved in a crash on the B9129 in Fife at 17:10 on Monday 17 August 2020. The 28-year-old male rider of the Lexmoto ZSX 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Aug 2020
- Monday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexmoto ZSX 125 and Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.27829, longitude -3.12559, in the KY15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020990973216
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 9129
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 1994.
Slight
Car crash on the B9129 in Fife, 11 January 1994
7 m awayRef 1994949400113
Slight
Car crash on the B9129 in Fife, 28 June 1979
7 m awayRef 1979947902643
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B9129 in Fife, 20 August 1981
14 m awayRef 1981948103400
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 28 January 1987
33 m awayRef 1987948700352
Slight
Talbot crash on the B9129 in Fife, 17 July 1992
54 m awayRef 199294LA0133B
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 22 July 2004
83 m awayRef 2004940402540
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto ZSX 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto ZSX 125)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
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 2020990973216 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.