Serious B7072 crash in East Ayrshire on 19 February 1990 at 18:35 involving a Chrysler Sunbeam
A Chrysler Sunbeam hit a pedestrian on the B7072 in East Ayrshire at 18:35 on Monday 19 February 1990. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Feb 1990
- Monday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Chrysler Sunbeam
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59507, longitude -4.48676, in the KA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kilmarnock.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199097UC04502
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7072
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 2014.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B7072 in East Ayrshire, 11 March 2014
73 m awayRef 201497UC01903
Slight
Car crash on the B7072 in East Ayrshire, 29 April 2006
78 m awayRef 200697UC06704
Slight
Car crash on the B7072 in East Ayrshire, 30 January 2018
78 m awayRef 201897UC00901
Serious
Car crash on the B7072 in East Ayrshire, 3 September 2002
92 m awayRef 200297UC00709
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 19 January 1997
100 m awayRef 199797UC03001
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B7072 in East Ayrshire, 22 December 1997
100 m awayRef 199797UC04812
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Chrysler Sunbeam
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Chrysler Sunbeam)
- 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 199097UC04502 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 1990.