Unclassified road crash in East Ayrshire KA5 on 30 July 1998 at 17:40 involving a Proton Proton
A Proton Proton and a Peugeot 205 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire at 17:40 on Thursday 30 July 1998. The 28-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 205 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 1998
- Thursday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Proton Proton and Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.51085, longitude -4.33572, in the KA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199897RB02607
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 233 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 March 2008.
Serious
Car crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 1 March 2008
233 m awayRef 200897UC40303
Slight
Car crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 14 November 2002
247 m awayRef 200297UC05311
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 25 April 2004
259 m awayRef 200497UC07304
Slight
Car crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 23 June 1983
283 m awayRef 198397RB04106
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 21 September 1981
316 m awayRef 198197RB02809
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 25 September 1987
412 m awayRef 198797RB05409
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Proton Proton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 205)
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 199897RB02607 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 1998.