Unclassified road crash in East Ayrshire KA1 on 24 September 1999 at 16:45 involving an Austin Metro
An Austin Metro crashed on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire at 16:45 on Friday 24 September 1999. The 11-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 1999
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.56282, longitude -4.48318, in the KA1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199997UC04009
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, 141 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 July 1999.
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A735 in East Ayrshire, 10 July 1999
141 m awayRef 199997UC01707
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the A735 in East Ayrshire, 12 May 1999
316 m awayRef 199997UC01305
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 5 November 2000
367 m awayRef 200097RA00511
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B7072 in East Ayrshire, 16 September 1999
424 m awayRef 199997UC02609
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in East Ayrshire, 6 April 1999
447 m awayRef 199997UC70204
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in East Ayrshire, 11 September 1998
539 m awayRef 199897UC01509
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 11 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Metro)
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 199997UC04009 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 1999.