B705 crash in East Ayrshire on 23 March 2001 at 17:00 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova hit a pedestrian on the B705 in East Ayrshire at 17:00 on Friday 23 March 2001. A 4-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2001
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.50458, longitude -4.33207, in the KA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200197UC04503
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 705
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 October 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 17 October 2000
32 m awayRef 200097RB03210
Slight
Bus crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 27 March 2010
54 m awayRef 201097UC41703
Serious
Citroen AX crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 13 June 2000
54 m awayRef 200097RB01506
Serious
Car crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 16 May 1981
91 m awayRef 198197RB02605
Slight
Car crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 3 April 1982
91 m awayRef 198297RB00404
Serious
Car crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 27 August 1981
91 m awayRef 198197RB03408
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200197UC04503 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.