Serious A719 crash in South Ayrshire on 13 December 2020 at 19:30 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the A719 in South Ayrshire at 19:30 on Sunday 13 December 2020. A 30-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Dec 2020
- Sunday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.3392, longitude -4.7884, in the KA19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020991006754
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 719
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 75 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 1990.
Slight
Nissan Silvia crash on the A719 in South Ayrshire, 31 July 1990
75 m awayRef 199097RA22907
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A719 in South Ayrshire, 25 December 1982
80 m awayRef 198297RC03112
Serious
Bus crash on the A83 in South Ayrshire, 3 January 1984
80 m awayRef 198497LD80101
Slight
Car crash on the B7023 in South Ayrshire, 5 September 1985
80 m awayRef 198597RC00609
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A83 in South Ayrshire, 7 January 1984
80 m awayRef 198497LD80301
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A719 in South Ayrshire, 17 May 2021
95 m awayRef 2021991046236
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2020991006754 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 2020.