Serious B744 crash in South Ayrshire on 22 July 2000 at 16:54 involving a Vauxhall Frontera
A Vauxhall Frontera crashed on the B744 in South Ayrshire at 16:54 on Saturday 22 July 2000. The 43-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jul 2000
- Saturday, 16:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Frontera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.54293, longitude -4.43976, in the KA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097RA04807
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 744
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 544 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 October 1991.
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 26 October 2020
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Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B744 in South Ayrshire, 29 March 2009
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Serious
Volkswagen Vento crash on the B744 in South Ayrshire, 9 February 2008
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Frontera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Frontera)
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 200097RA04807 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2000.