B744 crash in East Ayrshire on 20 May 2015 at 19:40 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the B744 in East Ayrshire at 19:40 on Wednesday 20 May 2015. An 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 2015
- Wednesday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59014, longitude -4.38476, in the KA4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597UC02505
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 744
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 October 1990.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B744 in East Ayrshire, 2 October 1990
27 m awayRef 199097UC90110
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B744 in East Ayrshire, 19 August 1990
27 m awayRef 199097UC90808
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B744 in East Ayrshire, 24 September 2017
33 m awayRef 201797UC01409
Slight
Van crash on the B744 in East Ayrshire, 24 October 1989
110 m awayRef 198997UC90810
Serious
Ford crash on the B744 in East Ayrshire, 16 August 1991
110 m awayRef 199197UC03508
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B744 in East Ayrshire, 6 December 2004
208 m awayRef 200497UC02612
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201597UC02505 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2015.