B744 crash in South Ayrshire on 26 June 2010 at 19:30 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Rover 25 were involved in a crash on the B744 in South Ayrshire at 19:30 on Saturday 26 June 2010. The 22-year-old male driver of the Rover 25 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jun 2010
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Rover 25
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.50702, longitude -4.49107, 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
- 201097UD72206
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 744
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- Dry
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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 2014.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B744 in South Ayrshire, 13 March 2014
17 m awayRef 201497UD02103
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B744 in South Ayrshire, 22 November 2003
63 m awayRef 200397UD04811
Slight
Car crash on the B744 in South Ayrshire, 14 September 2002
76 m awayRef 200297UD03309
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B744 in South Ayrshire, 11 January 1981
92 m awayRef 198197RA02601
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B744 in South Ayrshire, 14 October 1990
136 m awayRef 199097RA04810
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 2 December 1995
358 m awayRef 199597RA00712
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 25)
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 201097UD72206 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.