Serious A76 crash in East Ayrshire on 10 January 2012 at 18:10 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A Nissan Qashqai and a Yamaha YP 125 R motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire at 18:10 on Tuesday 10 January 2012. The 20-year-old female rider of the Yamaha YP 125 R motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jan 2012
- Tuesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Qashqai and Yamaha YP 125 R
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.49551, longitude -4.34087, in the KA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201297UC40501
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 713
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 24 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199997RB02711
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 17 August 2015
5 m awayRef 201597UC41108
Serious
Audi A5 crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 20 July 2025
5 m awayRef 2025991620890
Fatal
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 13 June 2020
5 m awayRef 2020990957187
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 10 January 2018
5 m awayRef 201897UC40401
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 14 July 2018
5 m awayRef 201897UC40307
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YP 125 R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YP 125 R)
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 201297UC40501 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 2012.