A759 crash in South Ayrshire on 20 July 2007 at 19:40 involving an LDV 400 Series van
An LDV 400 Series van crashed on the A759 in South Ayrshire at 19:40 on Friday 20 July 2007. The 25-year-old male driver 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
- 20 Jul 2007
- Friday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- LDV 400 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59583, longitude -4.55193, in the KA2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200797UD03607
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 759
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A759 in East Ayrshire, 26 August 1982
30 m awayRef 198297UC04408
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B751 in East Ayrshire, 23 January 1992
30 m awayRef 199297UC03901
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A759 in East Ayrshire, 30 September 1985
30 m awayRef 198597UC04409
Slight
Car crash on the A759 in East Ayrshire, 20 February 1986
30 m awayRef 198697UC03602
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A759 in East Ayrshire, 24 January 1994
30 m awayRef 199497UC04501
Slight
Car crash on the A759 in East Ayrshire, 1 June 1983
30 m awayRef 198397UC00206
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: LDV 400 Series
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (LDV 400 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 200797UD03607 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 2007.