Serious A841 crash in North Ayrshire on 16 February 2004 at 06:50 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A841 in North Ayrshire at 06:50 on Monday 16 February 2004. The 47-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Feb 2004
- Monday, 06:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.56441, longitude -5.1419, in the KA27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200497UA03602
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 841
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 161 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 July 1988.
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 11 July 1988
161 m awayRef 198897UB20507
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 11 July 1984
241 m awayRef 198497UB20007
Slight
Car crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 16 March 2004
265 m awayRef 200497UA05303
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 30 October 1993
467 m awayRef 199397UB20310
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 22 August 2001
589 m awayRef 200197UA06008
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 29 January 2010
626 m awayRef 201097UA03501
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200497UA03602 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 2004.