A759 crash in South Ayrshire on 18 December 2011 at 07:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A759 in South Ayrshire at 07:30 on Sunday 18 December 2011. The 30-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2011
- Sunday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.58635, longitude -4.57147, in the KA2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201197UD04512
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 759
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 2019.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A759 in South Ayrshire, 29 August 2019
50 m awayRef 2019970872624
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A759 in South Ayrshire, 24 June 1983
73 m awayRef 198397RA09106
Serious
Car crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 13 December 1995
85 m awayRef 199597UC70712
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A759 in South Ayrshire, 12 August 2011
100 m awayRef 201197UD02208
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A759 in South Ayrshire, 23 August 1995
124 m awayRef 199597RA06908
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A759 in South Ayrshire, 12 January 2003
230 m awayRef 200397UD02901
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, 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 201197UD04512 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.