B781 crash in North Ayrshire on 27 May 2003 at 10:50 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the B781 in North Ayrshire at 10:50 on Tuesday 27 May 2003. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 2003
- Tuesday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.70473, longitude -4.82488, in the KA23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200397UA08005
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 781
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B781 in North Ayrshire, 11 June 2009
14 m awayRef 200997UA03006
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B781 in North Ayrshire, 23 May 2017
39 m awayRef 201797UA01905
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B781 in North Ayrshire, 2 March 2004
42 m awayRef 200497UA00503
Slight
Car crash on the B781 in North Ayrshire, 18 September 2014
79 m awayRef 201497UA03109
Serious
Van crash on the B781 in North Ayrshire, 4 December 1987
110 m awayRef 198797UB10512
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the B781 in North Ayrshire, 16 August 1999
110 m awayRef 199997UB01508
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 200397UA08005 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.