B7073 crash in East Ayrshire on 11 April 2019 at 00:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B7073 in East Ayrshire at 00:30 on Thursday 11 April 2019. The 30-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Apr 2019
- Thursday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60527, longitude -4.46875, in the KA3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kilmarnock East and Hurlford, East Ayrshire, KA3 6NB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201997UC00304
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7073
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 February 2015.
Slight
Scania crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 16 February 2015
8 m awayRef 201597UC01902
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 8 October 2011
17 m awayRef 201197UC01110
Serious
Car crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 21 June 1986
120 m awayRef 198697UC02706
Slight
Car crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 7 June 1989
158 m awayRef 198997UC01306
Serious
Car crash on the B7073 in East Ayrshire, 4 May 1981
174 m awayRef 198197UC00705
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 2 July 1986
174 m awayRef 198697UC00507
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201997UC00304 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 2019.