Serious B743 crash in South Ayrshire on 18 August 2017 at 08:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the B743 in South Ayrshire at 08:00 on Friday 18 August 2017. The 27-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Aug 2017
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.50613, longitude -4.43465, in the KA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797UD70308
- Council area
- South 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 June 2011.
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 7 June 2011
15 m awayRef 201197UD01606
Serious
Car crash on the A758 in South Ayrshire, 22 December 1985
37 m awayRef 198597RA07612
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 12 February 2011
37 m awayRef 201197UD01502
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 1 March 1995
66 m awayRef 199597RA70103
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 5 April 2014
72 m awayRef 201497UD01304
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 18 March 2001
85 m awayRef 200197UD70803
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201797UD70308 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 2017.