Serious unclassified road crash in East Ayrshire KA2 on 12 January 1991 at 21:50 involving a Bedford
A Bedford crashed on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire at 21:50 on Saturday 12 January 1991. The 26-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jan 1991
- Saturday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bedford
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.58605, longitude -4.53221, in the KA2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199197UC02001
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 October 1995.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bedford
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bedford)
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 199197UC02001 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 1991.