A719 crash in East Ayrshire on 31 January 2016 at 11:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a car were involved in a crash on the A719 in East Ayrshire at 11:30 on Sunday 31 January 2016. The 43-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2016
- Sunday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59514, longitude -4.39331, in the KA4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201697UC03401
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 719
- 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
- 744
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 January 1995.
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A719 in East Ayrshire, 15 January 1995
10 m awayRef 199597UC70201
Serious
Car crash on the A719 in East Ayrshire, 20 February 1983
10 m awayRef 198397UC90202
Serious
Car crash on the A719 in East Ayrshire, 15 April 1984
10 m awayRef 198497UC90904
Slight
Car crash on the A719 in East Ayrshire, 30 May 1995
10 m awayRef 199597UC91105
Slight
Seat Cordoba crash on the A719 in East Ayrshire, 5 April 1999
10 m awayRef 199997UC00504
Serious
Car crash on the A719 in East Ayrshire, 25 July 1987
110 m awayRef 198797UC90507
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 201697UC03401 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.