Serious B7033 crash in East Ayrshire on 11 May 1988 at 06:00 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter crashed on the B7033 in East Ayrshire at 06:00 on Wednesday 11 May 1988. The 48-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 May 1988
- Wednesday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motor scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.58288, longitude -4.51138, in the KA1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198897UC02005
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7033
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1989.
Slight
Scooter crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 25 November 1989
At the same spotRef 198997UC04411
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in East Ayrshire, 20 December 1986
141 m awayRef 198697UC05612
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 26 August 2014
216 m awayRef 201497UC04208
Fatal
Opel Kadett crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 15 November 1991
283 m awayRef 199197UC04311
Serious
Car crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 4 February 1989
283 m awayRef 198997UC00602
Slight
Car crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 26 June 1982
283 m awayRef 198297UC02306
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 48, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 198897UC02005 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 1988.