Serious unclassified road crash in Fife KY2 on 12 December 2020 at 00:15 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 00:15 on Saturday 12 December 2020. The 29-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 2020
- Saturday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.15933, longitude -3.21868, in the KY2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020991006544
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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 serious injury crash on 5 April 2014.
Serious
Toyota IQ crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 5 April 2014
7 m awayRef 2014941400573
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B922 in Fife, 5 December 2003
16 m awayRef 2003940304324
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B922 in Fife, 4 January 1993
16 m awayRef 199394CD0003C
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Fife, 31 January 1998
16 m awayRef 1998949800325
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B922 in Fife, 30 October 2004
21 m awayRef 2004940403895
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B922 in Fife, 23 June 2009
21 m awayRef 2009940901321
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Serious injury band
- Very 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 2020991006544 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.