Serious unclassified road crash in Fife KY5 on 7 October 2020 at 17:36 involving a Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 17:36 on Wednesday 7 October 2020. The 54-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Oct 2020
- Wednesday, 17:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSXR 1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.14686, longitude -3.26352, in the KY5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bowhill.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020990987934
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 981
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 3 March 1979
9 m awayRef 1979947900929
Slight
Bus crash on the A910 in Fife, 16 June 1979
9 m awayRef 1979947902593
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 24 March 2002
17 m awayRef 2002940201225
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 20 February 2015
23 m awayRef 2015941500163
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B981 in Fife, 2 August 2000
26 m awayRef 2000940002803
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A910 in Fife, 5 November 1983
27 m awayRef 1983948304617
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 1000)
- 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 2020990987934 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.