B730 crash in South Ayrshire on 2 April 2006 at 21:50 involving a Subaru Legacy
A Subaru Legacy crashed on the B730 in South Ayrshire at 21:50 on Sunday 2 April 2006. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 2006
- Sunday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Subaru Legacy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.53911, longitude -4.50879, 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
- 200697UD00904
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 730
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 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, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 25 April 2008
72 m awayRef 200897UD03704
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 29 November 1997
338 m awayRef 199797RA07111
Slight
Car crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 30 June 2002
368 m awayRef 200297UD04406
Serious
Car crash on the A78 in South Ayrshire, 7 September 1979
434 m awayRef 197997UA00909
Slight
Car crash on the A719 in South Ayrshire, 18 October 1981
648 m awayRef 198197RA07710
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A719 in South Ayrshire, 12 April 1995
661 m awayRef 199597RA02404
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Legacy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Legacy)
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 200697UD00904 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.