A77 crash in South Ayrshire on 26 July 2015 at 19:15 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A77 in South Ayrshire at 19:15 on Sunday 26 July 2015. A 4-year-old male passenger and the 21-year-old female driver were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2015
- Sunday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.08709, longitude -4.98998, in the KA26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201597UD71407
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 77
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2007.
Slight
HGV crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 27 October 2007
10 m awayRef 200797UD21110
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 1 June 1982
54 m awayRef 198297RC00106
Slight
Lorry crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 14 September 1981
54 m awayRef 198197RC01109
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 5 September 2009
54 m awayRef 200997UD20209
Serious
BMW R Series crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 9 September 2021
67 m awayRef 2021991086079
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 9 January 2016
70 m awayRef 201697UD70301
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, 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 201597UD71407 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2015.