M77 crash in East Ayrshire on 7 April 2013 at 10:40 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series crashed on the M77 in East Ayrshire at 10:40 on Sunday 7 April 2013. The 48-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 2013
- Sunday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.65506, longitude -4.45056, in the KA3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201397UC01204
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 77
- 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2018.
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the M77 in East Ayrshire, 22 December 2018
17 m awayRef 201897UC01512
Fatal
Volvo S40 crash on the A77 in East Ayrshire, 19 August 2003
19 m awayRef 200397UC70608
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in East Ayrshire, 23 August 1984
22 m awayRef 198497UC81208
Serious
Car crash on the A77 in East Ayrshire, 28 September 1984
22 m awayRef 198497UC81309
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M77 in East Ayrshire, 31 August 2009
41 m awayRef 200997UC04308
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the M77 in East Ayrshire, 11 December 2013
47 m awayRef 201397UC02512
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
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 201397UC01204 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 2013.