A737 crash in North Ayrshire on 27 January 2000 at 16:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on the A737 in North Ayrshire at 16:30 on Thursday 27 January 2000. A 32-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jan 2000
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60786, longitude -4.66705, in the KA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Irvine.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097UA03701
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 737
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A737 in North Ayrshire, 17 December 2011
10 m awayRef 201197UA05912
Slight
Car crash on the A737 in North Ayrshire, 11 December 2005
14 m awayRef 200597UA03412
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A737 in North Ayrshire, 13 October 2012
14 m awayRef 201297UA02910
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 4 December 1999
36 m awayRef 199997UA00512
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 30 January 2018
40 m awayRef 201897UA02501
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 13 December 1980
40 m awayRef 198097UA03112
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,608 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200097UA03701 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2000.