A719 crash in South Ayrshire on 22 December 2005 at 13:00 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the A719 in South Ayrshire at 13:00 on Thursday 22 December 2005. The 50-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2005
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.54781, longitude -4.47874, in the KA1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200597UD06012
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 719
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 August 2009.
Serious
Saab 9-5 crash on the A719 in South Ayrshire, 2 August 2009
14 m awayRef 200997UD70108
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A719 in South Ayrshire, 28 October 1983
170 m awayRef 198397RA11110
Slight
Car crash on the A719 in South Ayrshire, 19 December 1982
291 m awayRef 198297RA09112
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A719 in South Ayrshire, 18 June 2017
377 m awayRef 201797UD70506
Slight
Car crash on the A719 in South Ayrshire, 26 March 1988
388 m awayRef 198897RA07503
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 18 July 1991
420 m awayRef 199197UC02807
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 200597UD06012 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 2005.