M77 crash in East Ayrshire on 31 August 2009 at 22:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the M77 in East Ayrshire at 22:10 on Monday 31 August 2009. The 46-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Aug 2009
- Monday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.65543, longitude -4.45057, in the KA3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200997UC04308
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 77
- 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
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2018.
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the M77 in East Ayrshire, 22 December 2018
28 m awayRef 201897UC01512
Serious
Car crash on the A77 in East Ayrshire, 28 September 1984
36 m awayRef 198497UC81309
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in East Ayrshire, 23 August 1984
36 m awayRef 198497UC81208
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the M77 in East Ayrshire, 7 April 2013
41 m awayRef 201397UC01204
Fatal
Volvo S40 crash on the A77 in East Ayrshire, 19 August 2003
60 m awayRef 200397UC70608
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A77 in East Ayrshire, 24 January 1997
73 m awayRef 199797UC70801
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200997UC04308 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.