A71 crash in East Ayrshire on 26 September 2017 at 07:45 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 and an Alfa Romeo 147 were involved in a crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire at 07:45 on Tuesday 26 September 2017. A 47-year-old female passenger in the Alfa Romeo 147 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2017
- Tuesday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 207 and Alfa Romeo 147
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60101, longitude -4.44257, 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
- 201797UC01509
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 37 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 16 June 1981
37 m awayRef 198197UC01906
Slight
MAN crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 16 April 2010
47 m awayRef 201097UC02404
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 25 November 2000
85 m awayRef 200097UC05411
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 24 April 2016
93 m awayRef 201697UC02304
Fatal
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 1 January 1985
113 m awayRef 198597UC00301
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 4 November 1989
113 m awayRef 198997UC01011
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Alfa Romeo 147
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Alfa Romeo 147)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201797UC01509 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.