B751 crash in East Ayrshire on 8 November 1993 at 01:40 involving a Volvo 345
A Volvo 345 crashed on the B751 in East Ayrshire at 01:40 on Monday 8 November 1993. The 39-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 1993
- Monday, 01:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo 345
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.64745, longitude -4.47419, 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
- 199397UC80311
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 751
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 31 July 1996.
Serious
Citroen Xantia crash on the B751 in East Ayrshire, 31 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199697UC81007
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B751 in East Ayrshire, 8 March 1997
100 m awayRef 199797UC01103
Serious
Kia Picanto crash on the B751 in East Ayrshire, 11 February 2025
149 m awayRef 2025991553465
Slight
Car crash on the B751 in East Ayrshire, 3 May 1989
200 m awayRef 198997UC80205
Serious
Car crash on the B751 in East Ayrshire, 27 December 1987
200 m awayRef 198797UC82012
Slight
Car crash on the B751 in East Ayrshire, 2 January 1985
300 m awayRef 198597UC80201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 345
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 345)
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 199397UC80311 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 1993.