B730 crash in East Ayrshire on 28 December 1983 at 03:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the B730 in East Ayrshire at 03:15 on Wednesday 28 December 1983. The 23-year-old male driver and a 28-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 1983
- Wednesday, 03:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.46503, longitude -4.47223, in the KA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198397RB05212
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 730
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 2002.
Slight
Car crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 13 August 2002
63 m awayRef 200297UD70408
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 5 April 1981
100 m awayRef 198197RB00604
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 24 October 2025
139 m awayRef 2025991658796
Fatal
Car crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 31 December 1983
316 m awayRef 198397RB05712
Slight
Van crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 14 December 1979
361 m awayRef 197997RA05012
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B747 in South Ayrshire, 9 November 2000
591 m awayRef 200097RA01311
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198397RB05212 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 1983.