Serious B746 crash in South Ayrshire on 15 September 1991 at 01:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B746 in South Ayrshire at 01:35 on Sunday 15 September 1991. A 20-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Sep 1991
- Sunday, 01:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.54551, longitude -4.62155, in the KA10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199197RA06009
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 746
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 130 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2006.
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the B746 in South Ayrshire, 9 December 2006
130 m awayRef 200697UD02612
Slight
Car crash on the A78 in South Ayrshire, 19 August 1984
200 m awayRef 198497RA06708
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the B746 in South Ayrshire, 4 January 2015
218 m awayRef 201597UD00201
Slight
Car crash on the A78 in South Ayrshire, 26 December 1984
224 m awayRef 198497RA10912
Slight
Vauxhall crash on the B746 in South Ayrshire, 31 August 1998
283 m awayRef 199897RA06708
Serious
Jeep Renegade crash on the B746 in South Ayrshire, 28 April 2018
299 m awayRef 201897UD70504
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199197RA06009 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 1991.