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Serious A71 crash in East Ayrshire on 24 September 2006 at 01:30

A vehicle hit a pedestrian on the A71 in East Ayrshire at 01:30 on Sunday 24 September 2006. A 38-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
24 Sep 2006
Sunday, 01:30
Vehicles
1
Other vehicle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60319, longitude -4.53955, in the KA2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse, East Ayrshire, KA1 2RW area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200697UC06209
Council area
East Ayrshire
Police force
Strathclyde
Police attended the scene
No

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
71
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 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, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

Enhanced collision data

How severity was recorded
Judged by the reporting police officer
Estimated chance it was serious
100%
Estimated chance it was slight
0%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 2011.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Other vehicle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Position at junction
    Not at or within 20 metres of junction
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Journey as part of work
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    31 years
    Engine capacity
    2,798 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 200697UC06209 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 2006.