A70 crash in East Ayrshire on 30 May 2005 at 18:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire at 18:30 on Monday 30 May 2005. The 16-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 May 2005
- Monday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.46977, longitude -4.21229, 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
- 200597UC08005
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 70
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 2000.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 1 June 2000
14 m awayRef 200097RB70206
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 8 October 2003
72 m awayRef 200397UC01010
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in East Ayrshire, 5 May 2012
81 m awayRef 201297UC40505
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 4 January 2008
177 m awayRef 200897UC44301
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 9 July 1999
227 m awayRef 199997RB00807
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A70 in East Ayrshire, 16 June 1995
227 m awayRef 199597RB70206
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 16, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200597UC08005 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 2005.