Serious A71 crash in East Ayrshire on 31 May 2011 at 16:45 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on the A71 in East Ayrshire at 16:45 on Tuesday 31 May 2011. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 May 2011
- Tuesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60031, longitude -4.4603, in the KA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hurlford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kilmarnock East and Hurlford, East Ayrshire, KA1 5BZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201197UC04405
- 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
- Urban
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
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 16 April 1988
22 m awayRef 198897UC02904
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 7 August 2004
54 m awayRef 200497UC07408
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 3 November 2008
85 m awayRef 200897UC00611
Slight
Datsun Stanza crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 13 February 1991
92 m awayRef 199197UC02702
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 17 April 1997
92 m awayRef 199797UC02604
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 10 October 1985
92 m awayRef 198597UC01810
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201197UC04405 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.