Serious A78 crash in North Ayrshire on 6 September 2014 at 11:24 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 and a Honda CBF600N motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire at 11:24 on Saturday 6 September 2014. The 31-year-old male rider of the Honda CBF600N motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Sep 2014
- Saturday, 11:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 307 and Honda CBF600N
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.76367, longitude -4.85462, in the KA29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497UA00909
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 78
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 September 2008.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 19 September 2008
4 m awayRef 200897UA05209
Serious
Car crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 31 January 1985
43 m awayRef 198597UB11901
Serious
Volvo 740 crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 30 June 1990
43 m awayRef 199097UB12806
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 1 December 1985
43 m awayRef 198597UB10212
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 24 March 1988
43 m awayRef 198897UB12003
Serious
Kawasaki Z550 crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 11 September 1991
43 m awayRef 199197UB10409
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBF600N
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBF600N)
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 201497UA00909 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 2014.