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Serious A70 crash in East Ayrshire on 21 October 1993 at 14:00 involving a Peugeot 205

A Peugeot 205 hit a pedestrian on the A70 in East Ayrshire at 14:00 on Thursday 21 October 1993. A 7-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Oct 1993
Thursday, 14:00
Vehicles
1
Peugeot 205
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.45371, longitude -4.2675, in the KA18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cumnock.

Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199397RB02710
Council area
East Ayrshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
70
Road type
One way street or slip road
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
Daylight
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 20 October 1995.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    43 years
    Engine capacity
    954 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 199397RB02710 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 1993.