B743 crash in South Ayrshire on 2 August 2006 at 07:30 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the B743 in South Ayrshire at 07:30 on Wednesday 2 August 2006. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2006
- Wednesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.50678, longitude -4.42247, in the KA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200697UD00408
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 743
- Road type
- Dual 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 June 2004.
Serious
Rover Cityrover crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 30 June 2004
22 m awayRef 200497UD07606
Serious
Volvo 360 crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 17 February 1997
32 m awayRef 199797RB01802
Serious
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 22 December 1998
114 m awayRef 199897RB03212
Slight
Mercedes AMG Class crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 19 April 2025
131 m awayRef 2025991607492
Serious
Subaru Forester crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 3 August 2019
165 m awayRef 2019970864791
Slight
Bus crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 20 February 1997
212 m awayRef 199797RA06602
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 200697UD00408 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2006.