A71 crash in East Ayrshire on 25 April 2009 at 17:58 involving a Proton Persona
A car and a Proton Persona were involved in a crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire at 17:58 on Saturday 25 April 2009. The 24-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 2009
- Saturday, 17:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Proton Persona
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.6058, longitude -4.57815, 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
- 200997UC03204
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 February 2003.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 17 February 2003
36 m awayRef 200397UC05102
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 13 July 2000
41 m awayRef 200097UC70707
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 26 May 2007
54 m awayRef 200797UC08105
Serious
Peugeot 107 crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 9 September 2011
86 m awayRef 201197UC01109
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 2 December 2010
90 m awayRef 201097UC70112
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 5 November 1997
100 m awayRef 199797UC01211
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Proton Persona
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200997UC03204 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 2009.