A71 crash in East Ayrshire on 27 September 2018 at 08:45 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz hit a pedestrian on the A71 in East Ayrshire at 08:45 on Thursday 27 September 2018. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2018
- Thursday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.61078, longitude -4.27397, in the KA17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darvel.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897UC01409
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 29 July 1988
40 m awayRef 198897UC91407
Slight
Opel Kadett crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 19 July 1995
40 m awayRef 199597UC90507
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 21 December 1982
40 m awayRef 198297UC90912
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 15 August 2011
42 m awayRef 201197UC02208
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 10 January 1981
63 m awayRef 198197UC90601
Serious
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 11 October 1980
63 m awayRef 198097UC90510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,246 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201897UC01409 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.