Serious C road crash in East Ayrshire KA2 on 8 March 1999 at 14:50 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on a C road in East Ayrshire at 14:50 on Monday 8 March 1999. The 38-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Mar 1999
- Monday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60296, longitude -4.57224, 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
- 199997UC00703
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 139 metres away, was a fatal crash on 7 April 2011.
Fatal
Iveco crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 7 April 2011
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Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 10 December 1986
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Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 23 December 2023
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Serious
Car crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 30 January 1989
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Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A71 in East Ayrshire, 7 April 2013
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 199997UC00703 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 1999.