B742 crash in South Ayrshire on 12 December 2014 at 23:50 involving a Peugeot 307
A car and a Peugeot 307 were involved in a crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire at 23:50 on Friday 12 December 2014. The 47-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 307 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2014
- Friday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.48982, longitude -4.54794, in the KA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201497UD03312
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 742
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 2002.
Slight
Car crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 4 November 2002
13 m awayRef 200297UD01011
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 10 February 1992
33 m awayRef 199297RA02802
Slight
Car crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 1 September 1982
33 m awayRef 198297RA00109
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 23 September 2015
64 m awayRef 201597UD03209
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 7 August 2017
70 m awayRef 201797UD00808
Slight
Car crash on the B742 in South Ayrshire, 18 November 1983
85 m awayRef 198397RA05211
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- 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 age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 307)
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 201497UD03312 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.