A78 crash in North Ayrshire on 17 October 2014 at 15:50 involving a Honda FR-V
A Honda FR-V and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire at 15:50 on Friday 17 October 2014. The 56-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 2014
- Friday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda FR-V and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.64672, longitude -4.73292, in the KA20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, KA13 6FL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497UA03110
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 738
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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 2 January 2014
9 m awayRef 201497UA00301
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 1 May 2000
17 m awayRef 200097UA00505
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 29 November 2014
25 m awayRef 201497UA06311
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 1 November 2003
28 m awayRef 200397UA00611
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 27 September 2003
31 m awayRef 200397UA08109
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 15 February 1999
33 m awayRef 199997UB00902
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda FR-V
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,668 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 56, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201497UA03110 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.