Serious A78 crash in North Ayrshire on 30 June 1996 at 15:40 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire at 15:40 on Sunday 30 June 1996. A 14-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Rover 200 Series was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jun 1996
- Sunday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.74881, longitude -4.8567, in the KA29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199697UB12006
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 78
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 May 2004.
Serious
MG ZR crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 19 May 2004
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Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 2 June 1999
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Serious
Car crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 23 January 1986
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Slight
Car crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 25 November 1987
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Fatal
Peugeot 309 crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 29 April 2001
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,342 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199697UB12006 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Ayrshire road accident statistics for 1996.