Serious A737 crash in North Ayrshire on 15 September 2014 at 16:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A737 in North Ayrshire at 16:00 on Monday 15 September 2014. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Sep 2014
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.65399, longitude -4.70478, in the KA13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kilwinning. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, KA13 6EE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497UA02709
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 737
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 738
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 27 June 2019.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A738 in North Ayrshire, 27 June 2019
4 m awayRef 201997UA01906
Serious
Bus crash on the A738 in North Ayrshire, 17 October 2004
8 m awayRef 200497UA05410
Slight
Dennis crash on the A738 in North Ayrshire, 10 June 2001
15 m awayRef 200197UA02406
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A738 in North Ayrshire, 18 February 2001
15 m awayRef 200197UA05702
Serious
Volvo crash on the A737 in North Ayrshire, 9 December 2004
15 m awayRef 200497UA03712
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A737 in North Ayrshire, 19 January 2011
15 m awayRef 201197UA03701
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 201497UA02709 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.