Serious unclassified road crash in North Ayrshire KA15 on 10 March 1998 at 09:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire at 09:00 on Tuesday 10 March 1998. A 34-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Mar 1998
- Tuesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.75661, longitude -4.62774, in the KA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Beith.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199897UA50403
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 1996.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B7049 in North Ayrshire, 19 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199697UA51712
Slight
Car crash on the B7049 in North Ayrshire, 1 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198797UA50009
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A737 in North Ayrshire, 12 March 1991
At the same spotRef 199197UA51203
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A737 in North Ayrshire, 20 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199997UA51107
Slight
Renault crash on the A737 in North Ayrshire, 8 January 1996
At the same spotRef 199697UA50401
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B7049 in North Ayrshire, 8 September 2017
28 m awayRef 201797UA00909
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 199897UA50403 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.