Serious unclassified road crash in South Ayrshire KA10 on 26 January 2018 at 08:20 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire at 08:20 on Friday 26 January 2018. The 39-year-old female driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jan 2018
- Friday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.54157, longitude -4.67037, in the KA10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Troon.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897UD02101
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 121 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 20 March 1983
121 m awayRef 198397RA05603
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 17 December 1991
121 m awayRef 199197RA05112
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 10 April 1992
121 m awayRef 199297RA03204
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 2 May 1983
130 m awayRef 198397RA00805
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 26 December 1997
130 m awayRef 199797RA05312
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 17 July 2001
168 m awayRef 200197UD70407
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 201897UD02101 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 2018.