B7038 crash in East Ayrshire on 12 October 2007 at 20:36 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series crashed on the B7038 in East Ayrshire at 20:36 on Friday 12 October 2007. The 37-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2007
- Friday, 20:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.5795, longitude -4.51612, 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
- 200797UC02610
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2008.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 25 January 2008
22 m awayRef 200897UC04501
Serious
Car crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 21 December 1981
32 m awayRef 198197UC03512
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 1 December 1993
32 m awayRef 199397UC00212
Slight
Car crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 8 February 1984
32 m awayRef 198497UC00802
Slight
Car crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 20 December 1986
71 m awayRef 198697UC05412
Slight
Car crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 8 November 1985
71 m awayRef 198597UC01511
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
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 200797UC02610 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 2007.