A70 crash in East Ayrshire on 30 August 1998 at 06:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A70 in East Ayrshire at 06:00 on Sunday 30 August 1998. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 1998
- Sunday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.4728, longitude -4.20689, 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
- 199897RB03308
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 12 August 1992
At the same spotRef 199297RB01708
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 15 February 2002
67 m awayRef 200297UC04302
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 25 March 1990
141 m awayRef 199097RB03703
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 30 January 1983
141 m awayRef 198397RB05701
Serious
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 27 August 1990
200 m awayRef 199097RB04808
Slight
Audi TT crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 4 December 2021
223 m awayRef 2021991117472
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199897RB03308 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 1998.