A71 crash in East Ayrshire on 1 May 2000 at 16:55 involving a Saab 9-5
A Saab 9-5 hit a pedestrian on the A71 in East Ayrshire at 16:55 on Monday 1 May 2000. A 10-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 2000
- Monday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Saab 9-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.6065, longitude -4.33256, in the KA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newmilns.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200097UC00305
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 71
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2013.
Slight
MG ZR crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 7 October 2013
42 m awayRef 201397UC01010
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 2 November 1997
50 m awayRef 199797UC00211
Slight
Bedford crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 11 December 1993
50 m awayRef 199397UC02712
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 4 September 1999
50 m awayRef 199997UC00609
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 9 December 1981
50 m awayRef 198197UC90012
Slight
FSO Cars Polonez crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 29 September 1993
50 m awayRef 199397UC91009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Saab 9-5)
- 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 200097UC00305 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 2000.