A841 crash in North Ayrshire on 23 December 2004 at 06:25 involving a Rover 45
A Rover 45 crashed on the A841 in North Ayrshire at 06:25 on Thursday 23 December 2004. The 66-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2004
- Thursday, 06:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 45
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.55397, longitude -5.14265, in the KA27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200497UA08712
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 128 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 12 December 1983
128 m awayRef 198397UB20112
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 3 July 1985
215 m awayRef 198597UB20107
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 12 October 2023
270 m awayRef 2023991362219
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 24 September 1991
310 m awayRef 199197UB20109
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 23 August 2013
365 m awayRef 201397UA04108
Fatal
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 19 December 2008
415 m awayRef 200897UA70512
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 45
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 45)
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 200497UA08712 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.