B7073 crash in East Ayrshire on 8 October 2011 at 23:45 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B7073 in East Ayrshire at 23:45 on Saturday 8 October 2011. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 2011
- Saturday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60527, longitude -4.46855, in the KA3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kilmarnock East and Hurlford, East Ayrshire, KA3 6NB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201197UC01110
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7073
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 2019.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 11 April 2019
17 m awayRef 201997UC00304
Slight
Scania crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 16 February 2015
25 m awayRef 201597UC01902
Serious
Car crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 21 June 1986
127 m awayRef 198697UC02706
Slight
Car crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 7 June 1989
142 m awayRef 198997UC01306
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 11 April 2009
161 m awayRef 200997UC70204
Slight
Lorry crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 17 July 1985
190 m awayRef 198597UC02907
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 201197UC01110 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 2011.