B780 crash in North Ayrshire on 30 May 2008 at 11:30 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus hit a pedestrian on the B780 in North Ayrshire at 11:30 on Friday 30 May 2008. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 May 2008
- Friday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.63989, longitude -4.81433, in the KA22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ardrossan. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, KA22 8JW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200897UA06005
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 780
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 October 1999.
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A738 in North Ayrshire, 18 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199997UB02310
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A738 in North Ayrshire, 3 February 2002
10 m awayRef 200297UA00102
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the B780 in North Ayrshire, 10 July 2013
18 m awayRef 201397UA02307
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 28 November 1986
42 m awayRef 198697UB03611
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A738 in North Ayrshire, 20 July 2005
45 m awayRef 200597UA04807
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 6 May 2005
45 m awayRef 200597UA70105
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Pedestrian location
- On refuge, central island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200897UA06005 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2008.