B742 crash in East Ayrshire on 20 May 1994 at 12:55 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B742 in East Ayrshire at 12:55 on Friday 20 May 1994. A 25-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 1994
- Friday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.42378, longitude -4.555, in the KA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199497RB01605
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 742
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, 38 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B742 in East Ayrshire, 29 April 2015
38 m awayRef 201597UC41704
Slight
Car crash on the B742 in East Ayrshire, 22 March 1986
141 m awayRef 198697RA06503
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 10 December 2008
173 m awayRef 200897UD03612
Slight
Car crash on the B742 in East Ayrshire, 27 February 2015
181 m awayRef 201597UD04702
Serious
Car crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 9 July 1999
224 m awayRef 199997RA01207
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B742 in East Ayrshire, 10 November 2025
269 m awayRef 2025991666162
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 199497RB01605 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 1994.