Unclassified road crash in East Ayrshire KA17 on 7 May 2015 at 16:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire at 16:30 on Thursday 7 May 2015. All five casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 2015
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.61879, longitude -4.24031, in the KA17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597UC01005
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 75%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 25%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 218 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 25 July 1983
218 m awayRef 198397UC02407
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 13 August 2000
774 m awayRef 200097UC01908
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 3 April 2015
976 m awayRef 201597UC70204
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 8 March 2012
978 m awayRef 201297UC00903
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 14 April 2024
980 m awayRef 2024991435597
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 3 November 2014
981 m awayRef 201497UC00411
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201597UC01005 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 2015.