B778 crash in East Ayrshire on 1 December 1997 at 11:10 involving a Vauxhall Senator
A Vauxhall Senator crashed on the B778 in East Ayrshire at 11:10 on Monday 1 December 1997. The 36-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 1997
- Monday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Senator
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.6706, longitude -4.48519, 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
- 199797UC00612
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 778
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2003.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B778 in East Ayrshire, 7 July 2003
71 m awayRef 200397UC01307
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the B778 in East Ayrshire, 28 July 2015
73 m awayRef 201597UC02407
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the B778 in East Ayrshire, 23 March 2000
99 m awayRef 200097UC04403
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B778 in East Ayrshire, 10 December 1997
100 m awayRef 199797UC01912
Slight
Car crash on the A778 in East Ayrshire, 9 March 2007
139 m awayRef 200797UC02903
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the B778 in East Ayrshire, 24 July 2010
170 m awayRef 201097UC03007
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Senator
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Senator)
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 199797UC00612 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 1997.