A713 crash in South Ayrshire on 25 September 2024 at 06:45 involving a Citroen Berlingo van
A Citroen Berlingo van and a Scania bus were involved in a crash on the A713 in South Ayrshire at 06:45 on Wednesday 25 September 2024. The 21-year-old male driver of the Citroen Berlingo van and a 59-year-old female passenger in the Scania bus were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Sep 2024
- Wednesday, 06:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Berlingo and Scania
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.42395, longitude -4.57357, in the KA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ayr.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024991533845
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 713
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A713 in South Ayrshire, 19 December 2006
5 m awayRef 200697UD09412
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A713 in South Ayrshire, 5 October 2018
5 m awayRef 201897UD70110
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A713 in South Ayrshire, 25 February 1999
7 m awayRef 199997RA71002
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A713 in South Ayrshire, 29 November 2007
8 m awayRef 200797UD06411
Slight
Mitsubishi Mirage crash on the A713 in South Ayrshire, 24 December 2020
8 m awayRef 2020991010043
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A713 in South Ayrshire, 30 December 2013
14 m awayRef 201397UD05012
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Berlingo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 59, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Scania)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2024991533845 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 2024.