{"id":266173,"date":"2026-01-04T02:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266173\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:53:12","slug":"man-dies-after-crash-involving-van-and-parked-car-in-fife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266173\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after crash involving van and parked car in Fife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765806968_986_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3a42d1a0-032b-11f0-9d83-c7f80f10afdc.png.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Getty Images A close-up of a police sign saying 'police accident' on a roadside\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on an unclassified road near St Andrews in Fife<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A 47-year-old man has died following a crash involving a van and a parked car in Fife on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police were called to an unclassified road near Stonywynd in Boarhills, near St Andrews, at about 17:55 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Officers said the driver of a white Mercedes Sprinter van was pronounced dead at the scene after the van collided with a parked and unattended Skoda Fabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Sgt Fraser Mitchell, from Livingston road policing, urged anyone with information to come forward &#8211; particularly two men who went to help the driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He added: &#8220;We are in the process of establishing the full circumstances and I would ask anyone who may have seen the Mercedes van before the crash, and is yet to speak to police, to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scotland.police.uk\/contact-us\/\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">contact us<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The road was closed for investigation and reopened at about 22:25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The crash happened on an unclassified road near St Andrews in Fife A 47-year-old man has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-266173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115834572245683266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}