B730 crash in East Ayrshire on 21 March 1999 at 04:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the B730 in East Ayrshire at 04:35 on Sunday 21 March 1999. A 26-year-old male passenger and the 35-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 1999
- Sunday, 04:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.3996, longitude -4.46914, in the KA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199997RB70403
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 730
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 87 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2013.
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 2 December 2013
87 m awayRef 201397UC40112
Slight
Car crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 4 December 1988
108 m awayRef 198897RB00712
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 12 October 2011
340 m awayRef 201197UC40510
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 23 September 2017
373 m awayRef 201797UC71009
Slight
Car crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 7 March 2012
407 m awayRef 201297UC40303
Serious
Car crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 20 February 2001
546 m awayRef 200197UC04502
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 199997RB70403 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.