A70 crash in East Ayrshire on 4 May 1988 at 12:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire at 12:30 on Wednesday 4 May 1988. The 20-year-old female driver of vehicle 1, the 38-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 and a 10-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 1988
- Wednesday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.45097, longitude -4.41126, in the KA18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198897RB00705
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 70
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 11 December 1987
At the same spotRef 198797RB01612
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 14 October 2019
48 m awayRef 2019970895104
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 4 November 2020
50 m awayRef 2020990996330
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 18 January 2016
55 m awayRef 201697UC41101
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 22 August 2012
100 m awayRef 201297UC41308
Slight
Van crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 10 October 1988
100 m awayRef 198897RB01910
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 198897RB00705 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 1988.