Serious B741 crash in South Ayrshire on 29 June 2009 at 23:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B741 in South Ayrshire at 23:00 on Monday 29 June 2009. The 21-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jun 2009
- Monday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.27601, longitude -4.76631, in the KA26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200997UD21906
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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, 139 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 April 1985.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 12 April 1985
139 m awayRef 198597RC00604
Slight
Car crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 5 July 2007
798 m awayRef 200797UD20107
Slight
Car crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 12 August 1985
825 m awayRef 198597RC00908
Fatal
Lorry crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 27 September 1991
920 m awayRef 199197RA10009
Slight
Subaru Forester crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 3 June 2014
1.0 km awayRef 201497UD01006
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B741 in South Ayrshire, 1 February 2005
1.1 km awayRef 200597UD20202
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200997UD21906 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 2009.