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A71 crash in East Ayrshire on 27 January 1996 at 08:30 involving a Ford Sierra taxi

A Ford Sierra taxi crashed on the A71 in East Ayrshire at 08:30 on Saturday 27 January 1996. The 28-year-old male driver and a 23-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 Jan 1996
Saturday, 08:30
Vehicles
1
Ford Sierra
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60131, longitude -4.53319, in the KA2 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199697UC02401
Council area
East Ayrshire
Police force
Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
71
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Urban

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
Other
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 October 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra

    Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside, crossed central reservation
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    28 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 28, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 23, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)

    Car passenger
    Rear 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 199697UC02401 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 1996.