B743 crash in East Ayrshire on 17 July 2016 at 13:50 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Toyota RAV4 were involved in a crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire at 13:50 on Sunday 17 July 2016. A 60-year-old female passenger in the Toyota RAV4 and the 19-year-old female driver of the Ford KA were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2016
- Sunday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.52058, longitude -4.34331, in the KA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201697UC40607
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 743
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 24 February 2022.
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 24 February 2022
1 m awayRef 2022991147243
Slight
Car crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 16 April 1998
102 m awayRef 199897RB02004
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 12 October 1996
112 m awayRef 199697RB01010
Serious
Mazda 626 crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 13 December 1999
128 m awayRef 199997RB01112
Serious
Van crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 1 October 2020
312 m awayRef 2020990986490
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 6 November 1995
372 m awayRef 199597RB01511
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota RAV4
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,231 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota RAV4)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 201697UC40607 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 2016.