Serious A841 crash in North Ayrshire on 23 August 2013 at 03:00
A vehicle hit a pedestrian on the A841 in North Ayrshire at 03:00 on Friday 23 August 2013. A 48-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Aug 2013
- Friday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.55718, longitude -5.14374, in the KA27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201397UA04108
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 841
- 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
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 95 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2023.
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 12 October 2023
95 m awayRef 2023991362219
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 3 July 1985
163 m awayRef 198597UB20107
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 5 October 2006
169 m awayRef 200697UA01410
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 29 January 2010
189 m awayRef 201097UA03501
Slight
Car crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 12 December 1983
262 m awayRef 198397UB20112
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A841 in North Ayrshire, 30 October 1993
347 m awayRef 199397UB20310
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 201397UA04108 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2013.