Serious unclassified road crash in Fife KY6 on 15 February 2025 at 20:00
A vehicle crashed on an unclassified road in Fife at 20:00 on Saturday 15 February 2025. The 17-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Feb 2025
- Saturday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.19951, longitude -3.19568, in the KY6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glenrothes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Glenrothes West and Kinglassie, Fife, KY6 1JF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fife
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025991554754
- Council area
- Fife
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- 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, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 October 2011.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 13 October 2011
11 m awayRef 2011941101866
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 5 February 1981
91 m awayRef 1981948100488
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the B969 in Fife, 10 May 2017
106 m awayRef 2017941700310
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 5 October 2003
110 m awayRef 2003940303483
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B969 in Fife, 15 July 2021
116 m awayRef 2021991066666
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in Fife, 25 February 1998
127 m awayRef 1998949800689
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 17, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025991554754 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 2025.