Serious B743 crash in South Ayrshire on 23 November 1989 at 14:20 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire at 14:20 on Thursday 23 November 1989. The 57-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Nov 1989
- Thursday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.4792, longitude -4.56967, in the KA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198997RA08511
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 743
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 1992.
Slight
Bedford crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 15 July 1992
At the same spotRef 199297RA02607
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 9 July 1994
At the same spotRef 199497RA01407
Slight
Car crash on the A758 in South Ayrshire, 4 March 1983
At the same spotRef 198397RA01503
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 10 March 2007
41 m awayRef 200797UD70103
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 1 February 2025
53 m awayRef 2025991549304
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 3 February 2020
61 m awayRef 2020990926259
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 57, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198997RA08511 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 1989.