Serious B7037 crash in East Ayrshire on 3 August 1980 at 15:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B7037 in East Ayrshire at 15:30 on Sunday 3 August 1980. The 22-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Aug 1980
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.58751, longitude -4.36884, in the KA4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198097UC90308
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7037
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 125 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 2000.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B7037 in East Ayrshire, 26 October 2000
125 m awayRef 200097UC04510
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the B7037 in East Ayrshire, 2 October 2014
131 m awayRef 201497UC00510
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B7037 in East Ayrshire, 27 June 2003
134 m awayRef 200397UC06406
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B7037 in East Ayrshire, 22 April 2005
158 m awayRef 200597UC05504
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B7037 in East Ayrshire, 13 June 2018
352 m awayRef 201897UC00506
Serious
Alfa Romeo 75 crash on the B7037 in East Ayrshire, 1 February 1991
361 m awayRef 199197UC90102
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198097UC90308 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Ayrshire road accident statistics for 1980.