A76 crash in East Ayrshire on 22 September 2001 at 21:00 involving a Ford Escort
A car and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire at 21:00 on Saturday 22 September 2001. The 29-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 2001
- Saturday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.40325, longitude -4.18299, in the KA18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200197UC05809
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 76
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 August 2015.
Slight
Peugeot 508 crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 11 August 2015
13 m awayRef 201597UC40708
Slight
Car crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 16 November 1980
32 m awayRef 198097RB03811
Slight
Lorry crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 7 June 1984
32 m awayRef 198497RB01006
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 28 October 2023
48 m awayRef 2023991377845
Serious
Car crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 7 November 1989
114 m awayRef 198997RB01811
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 28 November 1985
114 m awayRef 198597RB05911
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200197UC05809 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 2001.