Serious A79 crash in South Ayrshire on 8 April 2010 at 14:40 involving a Mazda 3
A Mazda 3 hit a pedestrian on the A79 in South Ayrshire at 14:40 on Thursday 8 April 2010. A 79-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Apr 2010
- Thursday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.49693, longitude -4.61267, in the KA9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Prestwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Prestwick, South Ayrshire, KA9 1HR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201097UD02004
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 79
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A79 in South Ayrshire, 9 May 2014
6 m awayRef 201497UD01905
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on the A79 in South Ayrshire, 22 August 2015
12 m awayRef 201597UD03108
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A79 in South Ayrshire, 21 September 2024
14 m awayRef 2024991495001
Slight
Car crash on the A79 in South Ayrshire, 2 December 2006
20 m awayRef 200697UD00912
Slight
Skoda Citigo crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 21 October 2022
22 m awayRef 2022991234667
Slight
Nissan crash on the A79 in South Ayrshire, 31 July 2001
22 m awayRef 200197UD05307
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 79, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 3)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201097UD02004 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 2010.