B749 crash in South Ayrshire on 30 June 1993 at 15:40 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova and an Austin Metro were involved in a crash on the B749 in South Ayrshire at 15:40 on Wednesday 30 June 1993. The 31-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Nova, a 1-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Nova and a 69-year-old male passenger in the Austin Metro were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jun 1993
- Wednesday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Nova and Austin Metro
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.54193, longitude -4.66253, in the KA10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199397RA08206
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 749
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 29 July 1988
At the same spotRef 198897RA09407
Slight
Car crash on the B749 in South Ayrshire, 14 June 1987
At the same spotRef 198797RA05306
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 25 March 1993
At the same spotRef 199397RA07203
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 31 July 2004
81 m awayRef 200497UD04707
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the B749 in South Ayrshire, 19 January 2009
82 m awayRef 200997UD02201
Slight
Audi A1 crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 2 March 2025
91 m awayRef 2025991562316
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Austin Metro)
- 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 199397RA08206 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 1993.