A71 crash in East Ayrshire on 24 April 2016 at 02:20 involving an Audi A1
An Audi A1 crashed on the A71 in East Ayrshire at 02:20 on Sunday 24 April 2016. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2016
- Sunday, 02:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60121, longitude -4.44409, in the KA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hurlford.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201697UC02304
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a fatal crash on 7 July 2003.
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 7 July 2003
30 m awayRef 200397UC70107
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 2 January 2004
30 m awayRef 200497UC70101
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 29 October 2001
44 m awayRef 200197UC08210
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 16 June 1981
87 m awayRef 198197UC01906
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 26 September 2017
93 m awayRef 201797UC01509
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 8 August 1990
116 m awayRef 199097UC01108
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A1)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 201697UC02304 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 2016.