B7024 crash in South Ayrshire on 24 January 2018 at 13:30 involving a Ford Kuga
A Ford Kuga and a Bentley Continental were involved in a crash on the B7024 in South Ayrshire at 13:30 on Wednesday 24 January 2018. The 58-year-old male driver of the Bentley Continental was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2018
- Wednesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Kuga and Bentley Continental
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.42701, longitude -4.6379, in the KA7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897UD70701
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7024
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2017.
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the B7024 in South Ayrshire, 5 May 2017
40 m awayRef 201797UD00205
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 21 March 1987
64 m awayRef 198797RA06403
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B7024 in South Ayrshire, 16 May 1999
64 m awayRef 199997RA03105
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the B7024 in South Ayrshire, 19 April 2011
131 m awayRef 201197UD02004
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B7024 in South Ayrshire, 24 March 2021
134 m awayRef 2021991030468
Slight
Car crash on the B7024 in South Ayrshire, 8 June 2016
142 m awayRef 201697UD01506
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Kuga
Car
- 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
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bentley Continental
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Bentley Continental)
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 201897UD70701 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.