B7024 crash in South Ayrshire on 23 May 2013 at 23:05 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the B7024 in South Ayrshire at 23:05 on Thursday 23 May 2013. An 18-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 2013
- Thursday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.4447, longitude -4.62922, in the KA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ayr.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201397UD03205
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7024
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 2012.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B7024 in South Ayrshire, 2 September 2012
5 m awayRef 201297UD00309
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 23 July 2004
5 m awayRef 200497UD05207
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the B7024 in South Ayrshire, 31 October 2011
13 m awayRef 201197UD04110
Serious
Car crash on the A724 in South Ayrshire, 29 August 1988
95 m awayRef 198897RA10208
Serious
Car crash on the A7024 in South Ayrshire, 26 December 1981
98 m awayRef 198197RA11112
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the B7024 in South Ayrshire, 18 August 2009
125 m awayRef 200997UD70808
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,422 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201397UD03205 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 2013.