Serious B7073 crash in East Ayrshire on 21 June 1986 at 02:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the B7073 in East Ayrshire at 02:25 on Saturday 21 June 1986. The 20-year-old male driver 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 Jun 1986
- Saturday, 02:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.6044, longitude -4.46988, in the KA3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198697UC02706
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7073
- 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, 116 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 February 2015.
Slight
Scania crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 16 February 2015
116 m awayRef 201597UC01902
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 11 April 2019
120 m awayRef 201997UC00304
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 8 October 2011
127 m awayRef 201197UC01110
Slight
Car crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 23 August 1983
141 m awayRef 198397UC03408
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 2 July 1986
141 m awayRef 198697UC00507
Slight
Lorry crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 17 July 1985
141 m awayRef 198597UC02907
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, 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 198697UC02706 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.