B730 crash in South Ayrshire on 16 April 2014 at 17:40 involving a Honda CBR600RR motorcycle
A Honda CBR600RR motorcycle and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire at 17:40 on Wednesday 16 April 2014. The 21-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR600RR motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2014
- Wednesday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBR600RR and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.55408, longitude -4.53924, 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
- 201497UD03404
- 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
- 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
- 36%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 64%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 August 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 8 August 1989
63 m awayRef 198997RA02608
Slight
Car crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 27 October 1989
63 m awayRef 198997RA09710
Serious
Kawasaki EX250 crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 14 September 1990
63 m awayRef 199097RA03609
Slight
Car crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 16 September 2006
72 m awayRef 200697UD03609
Serious
Car crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 13 July 1986
89 m awayRef 198697RA04507
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the B730 in South Ayrshire, 4 April 2005
121 m awayRef 200597UD00604
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR600RR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR600RR)
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 201497UD03404 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.