Serious B730 crash in East Ayrshire on 20 February 2001 at 17:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the B730 in East Ayrshire at 17:45 on Tuesday 20 February 2001. A 21-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Feb 2001
- Tuesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.40174, longitude -4.46137, in the KA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200197UC04502
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 175 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 1995.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 19 March 1995
175 m awayRef 199597RB70303
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 23 September 2017
233 m awayRef 201797UC71009
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 23 May 2003
240 m awayRef 200397UC07005
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 8 June 2017
260 m awayRef 201797UC40706
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 3 December 2016
263 m awayRef 201697UC40112
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 10 March 1995
273 m awayRef 199597RB70203
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200197UC04502 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 2001.