A70 crash in East Ayrshire on 8 October 2003 at 09:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A70 in East Ayrshire at 09:00 on Wednesday 8 October 2003. The 23-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 2003
- Wednesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.47015, longitude -4.21137, 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
- 200397UC01010
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 70
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 2000.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 1 June 2000
58 m awayRef 200097RB70206
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 30 May 2005
72 m awayRef 200597UC08005
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 5 May 2012
139 m awayRef 201297UC40505
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 4 January 2008
142 m awayRef 200897UC44301
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 25 March 1990
269 m awayRef 199097RB03703
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 29 February 2000
283 m awayRef 200097RB03702
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 200397UC01010 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 2003.