A71 crash in East Ayrshire on 7 February 2010 at 19:25 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat hit a pedestrian on the A71 in East Ayrshire at 19:25 on Sunday 7 February 2010. A 45-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 2010
- Sunday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60505, longitude -4.34263, in the KA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newmilns.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201097UC70402
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 March 2002.
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 22 March 2002
10 m awayRef 200297UC07703
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 16 January 2000
20 m awayRef 200097UC02101
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 17 November 1995
22 m awayRef 199597UC91311
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 13 October 1997
22 m awayRef 199797UC02410
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 17 May 1995
22 m awayRef 199597UC90605
Serious
Vespa (Douglas) crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 30 May 1997
22 m awayRef 199797UC04505
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201097UC70402 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.