B743 crash in East Ayrshire on 26 November 2006 at 20:00 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the B743 in East Ayrshire at 20:00 on Sunday 26 November 2006. The 21-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
- 26 Nov 2006
- Sunday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.5157, longitude -4.30009, in the KA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200697UC08611
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 743
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 92 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 June 1998.
Serious
Car crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 14 June 1998
92 m awayRef 199897RB01106
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 20 April 1981
157 m awayRef 198197RB02704
Serious
Car crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 27 August 1988
175 m awayRef 198897RB03808
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 13 October 2017
203 m awayRef 201797UC40310
Serious
Car crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 23 September 2003
305 m awayRef 200397UC01209
Slight
Hyundai Matrix crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 15 January 2008
323 m awayRef 200897UC45301
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 200697UC08611 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2006.