Serious B705 crash in East Ayrshire on 30 December 2019 at 16:20 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the B705 in East Ayrshire at 16:20 on Monday 30 December 2019. A 20-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Dec 2019
- Monday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.48212, longitude -4.29375, in the KA18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019970914317
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 705
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 17 February 1981
46 m awayRef 198197RB03402
Slight
Scania crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 23 August 2012
205 m awayRef 201297UC41508
Fatal
Car crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 16 July 2008
335 m awayRef 200897UC70507
Slight
Car crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 21 January 1997
417 m awayRef 199797RB02901
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B705 in East Ayrshire, 17 May 1987
417 m awayRef 198797RB01905
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 25 June 1993
439 m awayRef 199397RB03206
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- 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 2019970914317 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2019.