A76 crash in East Ayrshire on 30 July 2010 at 00:05 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A76 in East Ayrshire at 00:05 on Friday 30 July 2010. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2010
- Friday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.5471, longitude -4.40165, in the KA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201097UC42907
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 76
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 5 December 1989
36 m awayRef 198997RB01112
Slight
Car crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 13 March 1984
36 m awayRef 198497RB01403
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B744 in East Ayrshire, 8 March 1995
73 m awayRef 199597RA01703
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 4 March 1995
73 m awayRef 199597RB00603
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 27 April 2011
81 m awayRef 201197UC41604
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 17 June 1982
85 m awayRef 198297RB03206
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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 201097UC42907 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 2010.