A759 crash in East Ayrshire on 11 February 2007 at 17:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
Two Volkswagen Golfs were involved in a crash on the A759 in East Ayrshire at 17:00 on Sunday 11 February 2007. The 34-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and the 33-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 were 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
- 11 Feb 2007
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59665, longitude -4.5431, in the KA2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200797UC03002
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 759
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A759 in East Ayrshire, 30 March 2016
25 m awayRef 201697UC03703
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B7081 in East Ayrshire, 12 February 1992
172 m awayRef 199297UC02602
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A759 in East Ayrshire, 17 August 2021
191 m awayRef 2021991077944
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A759 in East Ayrshire, 20 December 2013
199 m awayRef 201397UC03512
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A759 in East Ayrshire, 27 December 2001
224 m awayRef 200197UC08012
Fatal
Car crash on the A759 in East Ayrshire, 3 April 1986
260 m awayRef 198697UC00404
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200797UC03002 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.