A735 crash in East Ayrshire on 30 March 2008 at 21:30 involving a Vauxhall Tigra
A Vauxhall Tigra, a Vauxhall Corsa and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A735 in East Ayrshire at 21:30 on Sunday 30 March 2008. A 19-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Tigra and the 18-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Tigra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2008
- Sunday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Tigra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.6068, longitude -4.49501, in the KA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kilmarnock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kilmarnock East and Hurlford, East Ayrshire, KA1 1PG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200897UC05403
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 735
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A735 in East Ayrshire, 15 April 2004
10 m awayRef 200497UC04304
Slight
Car crash on the A735 in East Ayrshire, 29 August 2004
10 m awayRef 200497UC09008
Serious
Car crash on the A735 in East Ayrshire, 9 March 2002
10 m awayRef 200297UC70503
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A735 in East Ayrshire, 10 February 2007
14 m awayRef 200797UC02302
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 3 November 2006
14 m awayRef 200697UC01111
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A735 in East Ayrshire, 18 June 2006
14 m awayRef 200697UC03806
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Tigra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Tigra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Tigra)
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 200897UC05403 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 2008.