Serious B749 crash in South Ayrshire on 4 August 2008 at 21:15 involving a Citroen Berlingo
A Citroen Berlingo crashed on the B749 in South Ayrshire at 21:15 on Monday 4 August 2008. The 40-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Aug 2008
- Monday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Berlingo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.53321, longitude -4.65201, in the KA10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200897UD00708
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 749
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 2014.
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B749 in South Ayrshire, 3 October 2014
9 m awayRef 201497UD00810
Serious
Van crash on the B749 in South Ayrshire, 10 September 1983
30 m awayRef 198397RA04109
Slight
Car crash on the B749 in South Ayrshire, 23 January 1982
30 m awayRef 198297RA07001
Slight
Car crash on the B749 in South Ayrshire, 21 June 1982
104 m awayRef 198297RA07706
Slight
Car crash on the B749 in South Ayrshire, 22 September 1989
104 m awayRef 198997RA09209
Serious
Mercedes crash on the B749 in South Ayrshire, 20 December 2001
140 m awayRef 200197UD05812
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Berlingo)
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 200897UD00708 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 2008.