B7049 crash in North Ayrshire on 16 October 2003 at 20:30 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo hit a pedestrian on the B7049 in North Ayrshire at 20:30 on Thursday 16 October 2003. A 49-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 2003
- Thursday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.74836, longitude -4.63743, in the KA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Beith. It is one of the crashes that make up the Garnock Valley, North Ayrshire, KA15 1BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397UA03410
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7049
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the B7049 in North Ayrshire, 13 January 1983
60 m awayRef 198397UA50901
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B7040 in North Ayrshire, 9 January 1994
60 m awayRef 199497UA50601
Serious
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 4 July 1998
60 m awayRef 199897UA50107
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 19 April 2005
95 m awayRef 200597UA06604
Slight
Car crash on the B7049 in North Ayrshire, 30 September 1983
108 m awayRef 198397UA52609
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 19 August 1999
108 m awayRef 199997UA51608
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 49, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200397UA03410 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.