Serious B751 crash in East Ayrshire on 10 June 1998 at 21:55 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B751 in East Ayrshire at 21:55 on Wednesday 10 June 1998. A 15-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 18-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
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jun 1998
- Wednesday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.62448, longitude -4.54263, in the KA2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199897UC01006
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 751
- 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, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 October 1997.
Slight
Lada Samara crash on the B751 in East Ayrshire, 17 October 1997
100 m awayRef 199797UC03110
Serious
Car crash on the B751 in East Ayrshire, 24 July 1979
100 m awayRef 197997UC03807
Slight
Lorry crash on the B751 in East Ayrshire, 27 January 1988
100 m awayRef 198897UC04301
Slight
Car crash on the B751 in East Ayrshire, 7 February 1986
100 m awayRef 198697UC01502
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 19 December 1987
141 m awayRef 198797UC03912
Serious
Mercedes 200 crash on the B751 in East Ayrshire, 17 October 1991
141 m awayRef 199197UC81110
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199897UC01006 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.