B7080 crash in North Ayrshire on 25 February 2018 at 21:58 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the B7080 in North Ayrshire at 21:58 on Sunday 25 February 2018. The 23-year-old male driver and a 24-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 2018
- Sunday, 21:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.63768, longitude -4.66621, in the KA12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897UA70802
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7080
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 41%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 59%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a fatal crash on 21 September 1985.
Fatal
Car crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 21 September 1985
46 m awayRef 198597UA03609
Serious
Car crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 20 September 1989
46 m awayRef 198997UA02909
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 14 March 1998
66 m awayRef 199897UA02403
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 10 February 2007
86 m awayRef 200797UA70202
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 9 September 2007
89 m awayRef 200797UA02509
Slight
BMW Z3 crash on the A78 in North Ayrshire, 2 November 2007
118 m awayRef 200797UA01411
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
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
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201897UA70802 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.