B741 crash in South Ayrshire on 29 August 2008 at 08:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B741 in South Ayrshire at 08:30 on Friday 29 August 2008. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Aug 2008
- Friday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.28028, longitude -4.74456, in the KA26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200897UD21608
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 741
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 85 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 2003.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 1 June 2003
85 m awayRef 200397UD20106
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 21 July 2000
89 m awayRef 200097RA20907
Serious
Car crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 10 April 1982
446 m awayRef 198297RC00804
Slight
Subaru Forester crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 3 June 2014
549 m awayRef 201497UD01006
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 24 August 2011
630 m awayRef 201197UD21108
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 26 April 2002
676 m awayRef 200297UD21504
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 200897UD21608 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.