A79 crash in South Ayrshire on 22 September 1983 at 09:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A79 in South Ayrshire at 09:25 on Thursday 22 September 1983. A 16-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 1983
- Thursday, 09:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.49991, longitude -4.6106, in the KA9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Prestwick.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198397RA07809
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 79
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 July 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A79 in South Ayrshire, 26 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198997RA07907
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A79 in South Ayrshire, 26 August 2008
10 m awayRef 200897UD05808
Slight
Car crash on the A79 in South Ayrshire, 5 May 2009
22 m awayRef 200997UD70305
Serious
Volvo crash on the A79 in South Ayrshire, 30 May 2023
25 m awayRef 2023991314574
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A79 in South Ayrshire, 12 October 2020
26 m awayRef 2020990989069
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 15 November 2003
32 m awayRef 200397UD03711
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198397RA07809 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 1983.