B743 crash in South Ayrshire on 9 March 2001 at 06:00 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the B743 in South Ayrshire at 06:00 on Friday 9 March 2001. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Mar 2001
- Friday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.50597, longitude -4.4362, in the KA5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200197UD01503
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 743
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 18 March 2001
22 m awayRef 200197UD70803
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 5 April 2014
26 m awayRef 201497UD01304
Serious
Car crash on the A758 in South Ayrshire, 22 December 1985
67 m awayRef 198597RA07612
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 18 August 2017
97 m awayRef 201797UD70308
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 6 November 2018
107 m awayRef 201897UD00211
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 7 June 2011
112 m awayRef 201197UD01606
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
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 200197UD01503 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 2001.