Unclassified road crash in East Ayrshire KA3 on 15 March 1983 at 10:15 involving a car
A car hit two pedestrians on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire at 10:15 on Tuesday 15 March 1983. A 35-year-old male pedestrian and a 58-year-old male pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 1983
- Tuesday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.67547, longitude -4.51095, in the KA3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198397UC81103
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 2001.
Slight
Mitsubishi Canter crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 20 October 2001
32 m awayRef 200197UC05710
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 28 July 2003
92 m awayRef 200397UC07607
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B778 in East Ayrshire, 14 October 1980
100 m awayRef 198097UC81110
Serious
Volvo 440 crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 17 September 1995
100 m awayRef 199597UC80509
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B778 in East Ayrshire, 25 June 2014
122 m awayRef 201497UC02706
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the B778 in East Ayrshire, 21 February 2017
130 m awayRef 201797UC01102
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 58, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 198397UC81103 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.