B7045 crash in South Ayrshire on 29 July 1998 at 16:00 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the B7045 in South Ayrshire at 16:00 on Wednesday 29 July 1998. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jul 1998
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.32889, longitude -4.57885, in the KA19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199897RA21907
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7045
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 640 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 1995.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B7045 in South Ayrshire, 19 March 1995
640 m awayRef 199597RA22003
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B7045 in South Ayrshire, 13 April 2017
782 m awayRef 201797UD70304
Slight
Car crash on the B7045 in South Ayrshire, 6 October 1983
806 m awayRef 198397RC00410
Slight
Leyland DAF Fas 75 crash on the B7045 in South Ayrshire, 29 July 1996
806 m awayRef 199697RA21207
Serious
Rover 25 crash on the B7045 in South Ayrshire, 19 May 2004
872 m awayRef 200497UD21605
Serious
Land Rover 90 crash on the B7045 in South Ayrshire, 4 January 1993
1.4 km awayRef 199397RA20201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, 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 199897RA21907 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.