Unclassified road crash in East Ayrshire KA18 on 5 November 1986 at 21:30 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire at 21:30 on Wednesday 5 November 1986. The 17-year-old female driver and a 16-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 1986
- Wednesday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.45589, longitude -4.38941, in the KA18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198697RB01111
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 56 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 9 November 2014
56 m awayRef 201497UC40211
Serious
Kia Niro crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 14 July 2025
57 m awayRef 2025991617507
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 5 February 2025
58 m awayRef 2025991550818
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 26 March 2015
58 m awayRef 201597UC41403
Serious
Citroen Xantia crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 14 September 2007
63 m awayRef 200797UC41509
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 14 March 2023
66 m awayRef 2023991303309
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 198697RB01111 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 1986.