Serious B743 crash in East Ayrshire on 9 November 2017 at 07:20 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
A Land Rover Range Rover Evoque hit a pedestrian on the B743 in East Ayrshire at 07:20 on Thursday 9 November 2017. A 69-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Nov 2017
- Thursday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.51511, longitude -4.3813, in the KA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mauchline. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ballochmyle, East Ayrshire, KA5 5AE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797UC41011
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 15 July 2015
14 m awayRef 201597UC40807
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 15 October 2023
17 m awayRef 2023991369799
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 28 June 2001
43 m awayRef 200197UC05806
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A758 in East Ayrshire, 2 July 1987
48 m awayRef 198797RB00507
Serious
Renault Espace crash on the B743 in East Ayrshire, 2 August 2015
50 m awayRef 201597UC70108
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 6 October 1997
68 m awayRef 199797RB00110
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 69, hit by vehicle 1 (Land Rover Range Rover Evoque)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 201797UC41011 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 2017.