B742 crash in East Ayrshire on 17 December 1999 at 22:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B742 in East Ayrshire at 22:00 on Friday 17 December 1999. A 12-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 1999
- Friday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.40386, longitude -4.57208, in the KA6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199997RB01312
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 742
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 May 1981.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B742 in East Ayrshire, 29 May 1981
45 m awayRef 198197RB04305
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the B742 in East Ayrshire, 21 October 2022
51 m awayRef 2022991233423
Slight
Car crash on the B742 in East Ayrshire, 23 November 2009
85 m awayRef 200997UC42511
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B742 in East Ayrshire, 13 March 1995
100 m awayRef 199597RB70403
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B742 in East Ayrshire, 3 January 2011
113 m awayRef 201197UD70101
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B742 in East Ayrshire, 15 November 2003
139 m awayRef 200397UC04411
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199997RB01312 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 1999.