A71 crash in East Ayrshire on 22 October 2017 at 12:20 involving a Mitsubishi Shogun
A Mitsubishi Shogun and a Nissan Almera were involved in a crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire at 12:20 on Sunday 22 October 2017. The 67-year-old female driver of the Mitsubishi Shogun was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 2017
- Sunday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Shogun and Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60764, longitude -4.32316, in the KA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newmilns.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797UC01110
- 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
- Urban
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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2001.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 23 March 2001
7 m awayRef 200197UC04603
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 5 May 2004
37 m awayRef 200497UC01905
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 18 October 2017
45 m awayRef 201797UC70110
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 31 January 1992
63 m awayRef 199297UC91101
Slight
Lorry crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 15 June 1993
68 m awayRef 199397UC90206
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 4 June 1986
68 m awayRef 198697UC90206
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Shogun
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 659 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Shogun)
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 201797UC01110 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 2017.