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Serious A71 crash in East Ayrshire on 14 June 1980 at 20:30 involving a car

A car crashed on the A71 in East Ayrshire at 20:30 on Saturday 14 June 1980. The 23-year-old female driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
14 Jun 1980
Saturday, 20:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.6015, longitude -4.43478, in the KA1 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198097UC01606
Council area
East Ayrshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
71
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside and rebounded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    23 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 198097UC01606 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 1980.