B7038 crash in East Ayrshire on 21 April 2004 at 22:20 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B7038 in East Ayrshire at 22:20 on Wednesday 21 April 2004. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2004
- Wednesday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.57137, longitude -4.52639, 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
- 200497UC70904
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7038
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 77
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 October 2003.
Serious
Fiat Brava crash on the B7038 in South Ayrshire, 13 October 2003
10 m awayRef 200397UD70510
Serious
Volvo 340 crash on the B7038 in South Ayrshire, 21 July 1999
51 m awayRef 199997RA71007
Fatal
Car crash on the B7038 in South Ayrshire, 29 January 1987
51 m awayRef 198797RA07601
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 21 February 1981
51 m awayRef 198197RA07902
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 23 August 1997
103 m awayRef 199797UC03908
Slight
Car crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 10 August 2004
134 m awayRef 200497UC70408
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200497UC70904 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 2004.