Serious A71 crash in East Ayrshire on 19 June 2018 at 08:50 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on the A71 in East Ayrshire at 08:50 on Tuesday 19 June 2018. A 68-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
- 19 Jun 2018
- Tuesday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.6013, longitude -4.45419, in the KA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hurlford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kilmarnock East and Hurlford, East Ayrshire, KA1 5BZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897UC70706
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 7073
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2018.
Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 8 December 2018
8 m awayRef 201897UC00512
Slight
Zontes ZT 125 crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 26 May 2016
9 m awayRef 201697UC02005
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 18 February 2000
15 m awayRef 200097UC03402
Slight
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 28 January 2007
24 m awayRef 200797UC08401
Slight
Opel crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 20 January 2004
24 m awayRef 200497UC04001
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 8 June 2017
25 m awayRef 201797UC00406
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go 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
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 68, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 201897UC70706 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.