A76 crash in East Ayrshire on 4 December 2006 at 19:15 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the A76 in East Ayrshire at 19:15 on Monday 4 December 2006. The 50-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2006
- Monday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.3926, longitude -4.16534, 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
- 200697UC01512
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 76
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 July 2010.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 10 July 2010
30 m awayRef 201097UC40807
Fatal
Toyota Avensis crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 3 October 2010
30 m awayRef 201097UC70310
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 31 August 2009
41 m awayRef 200997UC42308
Serious
Lorry crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 31 January 1984
51 m awayRef 198497RB05701
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 7 June 1991
51 m awayRef 199197RB00806
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 9 July 2015
52 m awayRef 201597UC70707
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- 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 (7.5 tonnes and over), 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 200697UC01512 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 2006.