B730 crash in South Ayrshire on 6 February 2014 at 10:30 involving a Ford Transit van
A van and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire at 10:30 on Thursday 6 February 2014. The 21-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Feb 2014
- Thursday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.54932, longitude -4.52453, in the KA1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497UD00802
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 730
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 January 2006.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 6 January 2006
8 m awayRef 200697UD00901
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 31 July 2019
13 m awayRef 2019970863877
Serious
Nissan Almera crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 19 January 2009
168 m awayRef 200997UD02501
Slight
Car crash on the A78 in South Ayrshire, 10 April 1981
410 m awayRef 198197UA01604
Serious
Lorry crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 24 March 1998
438 m awayRef 199897RA71103
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 22 July 2014
486 m awayRef 201497UD03607
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 201497UD00802 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 2014.