B7045 crash in South Ayrshire on 1 April 2011 at 20:00 involving a Toyota Prius
A Toyota Prius and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B7045 in South Ayrshire at 20:00 on Friday 1 April 2011. The 57-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra and the 38-year-old female driver of the Toyota Prius were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 2011
- Friday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Prius and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.37404, longitude -4.63408, in the KA19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201197UD00604
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7045
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 742
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 December 2004.
Serious
Taxi crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 11 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200497UD20612
Slight
Car crash on the B7045 in South Ayrshire, 3 March 2007
At the same spotRef 200797UD20303
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B7045 in South Ayrshire, 26 March 2015
6 m awayRef 201597UD04503
Fatal
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B7045 in South Ayrshire, 17 November 2021
6 m awayRef 2021991111063
Serious
Ford Kuga crash on the B7045 in South Ayrshire, 8 February 2023
7 m awayRef 2023991275023
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the B7045 in South Ayrshire, 7 July 2024
8 m awayRef 2024991464670
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Prius)
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 201197UD00604 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 2011.