B742 crash in South Ayrshire on 23 October 2000 at 01:00 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 crashed on the B742 in South Ayrshire at 01:00 on Monday 23 October 2000. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2000
- Monday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.43413, longitude -4.51714, in the KA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097RA05310
- Council area
- South 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 March 2011.
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 13 March 2011
81 m awayRef 201197UD02103
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 20 March 2013
105 m awayRef 201397UD02903
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 30 January 2012
134 m awayRef 201297UD05301
Serious
Car crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 26 August 1987
152 m awayRef 198797RA08108
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 7 March 1993
152 m awayRef 199397RA01903
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 14 January 1998
171 m awayRef 199897RA02201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
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 200097RA05310 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.