B708 crash in North Ayrshire on 28 March 1998 at 08:30 involving a Talbot Horizon
A Talbot Horizon crashed on the B708 in North Ayrshire at 08:30 on Saturday 28 March 1998. The 28-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 1998
- Saturday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Talbot Horizon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60959, longitude -4.65124, in the KA11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199897UA03503
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 708
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1994.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B7081 in North Ayrshire, 11 March 1994
At the same spotRef 199497UA00903
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B7081 in North Ayrshire, 29 September 1999
At the same spotRef 199997UA02609
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B7081 in North Ayrshire, 23 February 1990
At the same spotRef 199097UA03602
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the B7081 in North Ayrshire, 28 February 2003
98 m awayRef 200397UA09502
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in North Ayrshire, 10 August 1985
100 m awayRef 198597UA01508
Serious
Bus crash on the A71 in North Ayrshire, 11 January 1984
100 m awayRef 198497UA02201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Talbot Horizon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,294 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Talbot Horizon)
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 199897UA03503 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Ayrshire road accident statistics for 1998.