B730 crash in South Ayrshire on 17 November 2008 at 09:00 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire at 09:00 on Monday 17 November 2008. The 39-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2008
- Monday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.47495, longitude -4.47227, 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
- 200897UD03411
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a fatal crash on 3 October 2004.
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 3 October 2004
51 m awayRef 200497UC70110
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 25 February 2005
187 m awayRef 200597UC04202
Serious
Car crash on the A78 in East Ayrshire, 15 December 1984
204 m awayRef 198497UB02012
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 25 January 2007
367 m awayRef 200797UC07501
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 15 September 2000
502 m awayRef 200097RB01209
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the B730 in East Ayrshire, 30 June 1996
504 m awayRef 199697RB02406
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200897UD03411 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.