B780 crash in North Ayrshire on 27 September 1998 at 12:45 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 crashed on the B780 in North Ayrshire at 12:45 on Sunday 27 September 1998. The 19-year-old male driver 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
- 27 Sep 1998
- Sunday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.73245, longitude -4.70576, in the KA24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199897UA51909
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 780
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B780 in North Ayrshire, 29 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199797UA52411
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B780 in North Ayrshire, 11 January 1993
At the same spotRef 199397UA50701
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the B780 in North Ayrshire, 13 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199997UA50408
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B780 in North Ayrshire, 12 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199797UA50605
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the B780 in North Ayrshire, 19 June 1998
At the same spotRef 199897UA51106
Slight
Van crash on the B780 in North Ayrshire, 17 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198997UA51803
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
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 199897UA51909 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.