B752 crash in North Ayrshire on 4 December 2003 at 00:45 involving a Peugeot 406 taxi
A car and a Peugeot 406 taxi were involved in a crash on the B752 in North Ayrshire at 00:45 on Thursday 4 December 2003. The 37-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 406 taxi was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2003
- Thursday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Peugeot 406
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.64247, longitude -4.74394, in the KA20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Saltcoats and Stevenston, North Ayrshire, KA20 3BD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397UA01012
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 752
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 78
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 2003.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 27 January 2003
10 m awayRef 200397UA06901
Slight
Suzuki Baleno crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 26 August 2003
14 m awayRef 200397UA07308
Slight
Car crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 1 August 1987
22 m awayRef 198797UB00508
Serious
Car crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 30 July 1988
22 m awayRef 198897UB04607
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 21 November 1992
22 m awayRef 199297UB02911
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 4 December 1997
22 m awayRef 199797UB00512
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 406
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 406)
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 200397UA01012 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 2003.