Serious A760 crash in North Ayrshire on 5 July 2023 at 14:15 involving a Skoda Yeti
A Skoda Yeti crashed on the A760 in North Ayrshire at 14:15 on Wednesday 5 July 2023. The 36-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 5-year-old female passenger 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
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jul 2023
- Wednesday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Yeti
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.76596, longitude -4.66099, in the PA12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023991326313
- Council area
- North Ayrshire
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 760
- 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
- 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, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A760 in North Ayrshire, 8 March 2006
71 m awayRef 200697UA02303
Slight
Car crash on the A760 in Renfrewshire, 25 August 1999
93 m awayRef 199997KB02208
Serious
Opel Ascona crash on the A760 in Renfrewshire, 21 January 1991
93 m awayRef 199197UA51901
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A760 in Renfrewshire, 25 November 1995
93 m awayRef 199597UA52211
Serious
MCC Smart crash on the A760 in North Ayrshire, 6 July 2022
94 m awayRef 2022991195878
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A760 in North Ayrshire, 26 August 1999
131 m awayRef 199997UA51408
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Yeti
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Yeti)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Yeti)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2023991326313 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 2023.