Serious A77 crash in South Ayrshire on 22 September 1998 at 08:45 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A77 in South Ayrshire at 08:45 on Tuesday 22 September 1998. The 25-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Sep 1998
- Tuesday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.48625, longitude -4.57646, in the KA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199897RA04009
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 77
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 3 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198997RA00902
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M77 in South Ayrshire, 15 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199997RA03910
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 10 February 1992
At the same spotRef 199297RA02702
Slight
Lorry crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 1 December 1983
At the same spotRef 198397RA00212
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 20 December 1988
At the same spotRef 198897RA06512
Serious
Scania crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 23 March 1990
At the same spotRef 199097RA08503
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 199897RA04009 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.