B705 crash in East Ayrshire on 3 September 2007 at 19:10 involving a Suzuki DR Z400 motorcycle
A Suzuki DR Z400 motorcycle crashed on the B705 in East Ayrshire at 19:10 on Monday 3 September 2007. The 43-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Sep 2007
- Monday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki DR Z400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.50954, longitude -4.28833, 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
- 200797UC40309
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 705
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 42%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 58%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B713 in East Ayrshire, 29 November 1998
51 m awayRef 199897RB03211
Serious
Car crash on the B713 in East Ayrshire, 4 December 1994
51 m awayRef 199497RB00512
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B713 in East Ayrshire, 2 December 2001
63 m awayRef 200197UC00912
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 14 March 1983
103 m awayRef 198397RB01803
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 19 December 1990
103 m awayRef 199097RB04312
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B713 in East Ayrshire, 6 September 1997
103 m awayRef 199797RB00109
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki DR Z400
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 43, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki DR Z400)
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 200797UC40309 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 2007.