Two people hospitalised after car flips onto roof in horror crash on …
Two people were rushed to hospital after a car flipped on its roof in Fife[1].
Emergency crews scrambled to Standing Stane Road in Kirkcaldy, after receiving reports of a two-vehicle crash at 6.35am on Tuesday, August 22.
Medics[2] attended and the drivers of both of the cars, a 25-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man, were taken to hospital by ambulance. The road was closed while recovery took place and reopened at 8am.
Their current conditions are unknown.
As the Record[4] reports, the man was also issued with a fixed penalty notice in connection with an alleged road traffic offence.
Images from the scene show a red vehicle lying overturned and crumpled on the roadside.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Around 6.35am on Tuesday, 22 August, 2023, we were called to a report of a two-vehicle crash on Standing Stane Road, Kirkcaldy.
The drivers of both vehicles, a 25-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man, were taken to hospital. The man was also issued with a fixed penalty notice in connection with a road traffic offence.
“The road was closed while recovery took place and reopened around 8am.”
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References
- ^ Fife (www.edinburghlive.co.uk)
- ^ Medics (www.edinburghlive.co.uk)
- ^ ‘Drug mule’ arrested at Edinburgh train station with £36k worth of cannabis stashed in suitcase (www.edinburghlive.co.uk)
- ^ Record (www.dailyrecord.co.uk)
- ^ breaking news (www.edinburghlive.co.uk)
- ^ coronavirus (www.edinburghlive.co.uk)
- ^ here (data.reachplc.com)