Unclassified road crash in South Ayrshire KA26 on 28 May 1982 at 08:40 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire at 08:40 on Friday 28 May 1982. A 10-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 1982
- Friday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.23998, longitude -4.85784, in the KA26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Girvan.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198297RC01705
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 2004.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 7 March 2004
20 m awayRef 200497UD20403
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 28 June 2001
30 m awayRef 200197UD21806
Serious
Peugeot 5008 crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 30 May 2025
31 m awayRef 2025991596640
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 11 July 2003
32 m awayRef 200397UD21007
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 7 October 2001
36 m awayRef 200197UD20310
Serious
Rover 100 Series crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 14 April 2000
92 m awayRef 200097RA20704
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198297RC01705 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ayrshire road accident statistics for 1982.