A70 crash in East Ayrshire on 14 August 2001 at 16:00 involving a Scania lorry
A Scania lorry crashed on the A70 in East Ayrshire at 16:00 on Tuesday 14 August 2001. The 32-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
- 14 Aug 2001
- Tuesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.50897, longitude -4.13578, 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
- 200197UC02408
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 11 April 2000
14 m awayRef 200097RB01404
Serious
Car crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 19 December 1983
28 m awayRef 198397RB03712
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 1 July 1985
82 m awayRef 198597RB00207
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 30 October 1998
281 m awayRef 199897RB04510
Slight
Scania crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 7 September 1993
284 m awayRef 199397RB00609
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 12 January 2010
338 m awayRef 201097UC41001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Jackknifed and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Scania)
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 200197UC02408 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 2001.