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A719 crash in South Ayrshire on 16 April 1998 at 16:00 involving a Fiat Punto

A Fiat Punto hit a pedestrian on the A719 in South Ayrshire at 16:00 on Thursday 16 April 1998. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was 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
16 Apr 1998
Thursday, 16:00
Vehicles
1
Fiat Punto
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.46559, longitude -4.61783, in the KA8 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199897RA03704
Council area
South Ayrshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
719
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    49 years
    Engine capacity
    1,108 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    3 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 199897RA03704 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 1998.