Serious A76 crash in East Ayrshire on 21 August 1983 at 23:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A76 in East Ayrshire at 23:30 on Sunday 21 August 1983. A 25-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Aug 1983
- Sunday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.39861, longitude -4.1838, in the KA18 postcode district and within the built-up area of New Cumnock.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198397RB02808
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 76
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 1980.
Slight
Van crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 8 October 1980
At the same spotRef 198097RB01310
Serious
Car crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 1 October 1981
At the same spotRef 198197RB00510
Serious
Van crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 1 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198597RB00107
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 11 May 1999
At the same spotRef 199997RB01105
Fatal
Bus crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 4 February 1982
At the same spotRef 198297RB00402
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 3 November 2008
20 m awayRef 200897UC40211
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198397RB02808 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 1983.