A71 crash in East Ayrshire on 2 December 2010 at 22:18 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A71 in East Ayrshire at 22:18 on Thursday 2 December 2010. The 56-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2010
- Thursday, 22:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60577, longitude -4.57957, 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
- 201097UC70112
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 89 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 July 2000.
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 13 July 2000
89 m awayRef 200097UC70707
Slight
Proton Persona crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 25 April 2009
90 m awayRef 200997UC03204
Slight
Lorry crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 26 August 1988
100 m awayRef 198897UC04308
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 26 May 2007
121 m awayRef 200797UC08105
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 17 February 2003
122 m awayRef 200397UC05102
Slight
Honda XL125V crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 9 May 2012
139 m awayRef 201297UC00905
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 201097UC70112 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.