Serious A77 crash in East Ayrshire on 25 November 2013 at 21:35 involving a Ford Transit lorry
A Ford Transit lorry hit a pedestrian on the A77 in East Ayrshire at 21:35 on Monday 25 November 2013. A 53-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Nov 2013
- Monday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.57092, longitude -4.52325, in the KA1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201397UC03211
- Council area
- East Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 77
- Road type
- Dual 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 108 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 2000.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B7038 in South Ayrshire, 26 August 2000
108 m awayRef 200097RA71208
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 16 June 1997
140 m awayRef 199797RA70406
Serious
Car crash on the A77 in South Ayrshire, 16 June 1985
140 m awayRef 198597UC02406
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B7038 in East Ayrshire, 23 August 1997
151 m awayRef 199797UC03908
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in South Ayrshire, 19 September 1993
194 m awayRef 199397UC02409
Serious
Fiat Brava crash on the B7038 in South Ayrshire, 13 October 2003
195 m awayRef 200397UD70510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 201397UC03211 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 2013.