A738 crash in North Ayrshire on 19 December 2018 at 14:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A738 in North Ayrshire at 14:00 on Wednesday 19 December 2018. The 66-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2018
- Wednesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.65358, longitude -4.71411, in the KA13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kilwinning.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897UA02112
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 738
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 34 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 November 2005.
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A738 in North Ayrshire, 9 November 2005
34 m awayRef 200597UA01611
Serious
Rover 45 crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 5 February 2008
44 m awayRef 200897UA01202
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A738 in North Ayrshire, 7 September 2004
51 m awayRef 200497UA03209
Slight
Bus crash on the A738 in North Ayrshire, 5 April 1995
56 m awayRef 199597UA01304
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A738 in North Ayrshire, 8 July 1995
56 m awayRef 199597UA01007
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A738 in North Ayrshire, 24 August 1999
56 m awayRef 199997UA70308
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
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 201897UA02112 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2018.