Serious unclassified road crash in East Ayrshire KA4 on 12 June 2018 at 18:30 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire at 18:30 on Tuesday 12 June 2018. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jun 2018
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60136, longitude -4.38922, in the KA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Galston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Irvine Valley, East Ayrshire, KA4 8AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897UC00706
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 112 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 2006.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 30 April 2006
112 m awayRef 200697UC07204
Serious
MG Maestro crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 19 December 1990
120 m awayRef 199097UC90712
Serious
Datsun Cherry crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 1 December 1990
120 m awayRef 199097UC90112
Slight
Seat Terra crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 26 October 1993
120 m awayRef 199397UC90710
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 3 November 1986
120 m awayRef 198697UC90111
Slight
Bus crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 29 August 1986
133 m awayRef 198697UC91308
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 201897UC00706 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 2018.