B778 crash in North Ayrshire on 29 April 2019 at 11:30 involving a Volkswagen Scirocco
A Volkswagen Scirocco hit a pedestrian on the B778 in North Ayrshire at 11:30 on Monday 29 April 2019. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 2019
- Monday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Scirocco
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.65997, longitude -4.68674, in the KA13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201997UA71104
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 778
- 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
- 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
- 31%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 69%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2007.
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on an unclassified road in North Ayrshire, 16 December 2007
11 m awayRef 200797UA05612
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the B778 in North Ayrshire, 26 January 2015
18 m awayRef 201597UA05501
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B778 in North Ayrshire, 24 June 2004
44 m awayRef 200497UA70406
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B778 in North Ayrshire, 23 July 2006
79 m awayRef 200697UA70307
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B778 in North Ayrshire, 26 February 2009
85 m awayRef 200997UA08502
Serious
Car crash on the B778 in North Ayrshire, 6 October 1983
111 m awayRef 198397UA00910
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Scirocco
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Scirocco)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201997UA71104 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 2019.