Unclassified road crash in Fife KY15 on 6 November 2020 at 17:21 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 17:21 on Friday 6 November 2020. The 22-year-old male driver, a 26-year-old female passenger and a 26-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 2020
- Friday, 17:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.24119, longitude -3.12757, in the KY15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020990996762
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 2021.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 27 June 2021
19 m awayRef 2021991059963
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Fife, 27 December 1998
31 m awayRef 1998949803719
Slight
Mercedes GLC Class crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 11 May 2023
254 m awayRef 2023991306068
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on a C road in Fife, 17 December 2009
272 m awayRef 2009940902776
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Fife, 24 December 2004
272 m awayRef 2004940404583
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on a C road in Fife, 31 December 2000
279 m awayRef 2000940100026
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2020990996762 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.