B705 crash in East Ayrshire on 27 March 2010 at 14:45 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the B705 in East Ayrshire at 14:45 on Saturday 27 March 2010. A 71-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Mar 2010
- Saturday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.50442, longitude -4.33127, in the KA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201097UC41703
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 705
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Pedestrian in carriageway, not injured
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 June 2000.
Serious
Citroen AX crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 13 June 2000
At the same spotRef 200097RB01506
Serious
Car crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 27 August 1981
50 m awayRef 198197RB03408
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 23 March 2001
54 m awayRef 200197UC04503
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 6 October 2009
61 m awayRef 200997UC40510
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 23 July 2006
67 m awayRef 200697UC05107
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 2 July 2015
69 m awayRef 201597UC70207
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 201097UC41703 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2010.