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Serious A70 crash in South Ayrshire on 25 October 1992 at 01:45 involving a Ford Sierra

A Ford Sierra hit a pedestrian on the A70 in South Ayrshire at 01:45 on Sunday 25 October 1992. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
25 Oct 1992
Sunday, 01:45
Vehicles
1
Ford Sierra
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.4528, longitude -4.58535, in the KA6 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199297RA07710
Council area
South 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
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 January 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years
    Engine capacity
    1,753 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 199297RA07710 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ayrshire road accident statistics for 1992.