Unclassified road crash in East Ayrshire KA4 on 10 May 2013 at 15:50 involving an Aprilia RS 125 motorcycle
An Aprilia RS 125 motorcycle and a Peugeot 307 taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire at 15:50 on Friday 10 May 2013. The 28-year-old male rider of the Aprilia RS 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 May 2013
- Friday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Aprilia RS 125 and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60044, longitude -4.38506, in the KA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Galston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Irvine Valley, East Ayrshire, KA4 8AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201397UC01105
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 44 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 31 August 1981
44 m awayRef 198197UC91008
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 15 June 2000
65 m awayRef 200097UC02706
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 6 December 1985
74 m awayRef 198597UC90112
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 26 November 1989
77 m awayRef 198997UC91011
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 14 May 2005
86 m awayRef 200597UC03705
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A719 in East Ayrshire, 16 November 1991
98 m awayRef 199197UC90711
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia RS 125
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia RS 125)
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 201397UC01105 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2013.