A77 crash in East Ayrshire on 8 December 2016 at 14:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the A77 in East Ayrshire at 14:00 on Thursday 8 December 2016. The 31-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
- 8 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.66151, longitude -4.44753, in the KA3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201697UC70512
- 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
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 1988.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A77 in East Ayrshire, 2 March 1988
35 m awayRef 198897UC80003
Slight
Car crash on the A77 in East Ayrshire, 7 August 1987
35 m awayRef 198797UC80208
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A77 in East Ayrshire, 3 August 1991
35 m awayRef 199197UC00508
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the M77 in East Ayrshire, 30 August 2014
49 m awayRef 201497UC04308
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the M77 in East Ayrshire, 1 February 2007
66 m awayRef 200797UC00102
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on the A77 in East Ayrshire, 31 January 1997
106 m awayRef 199797UC04801
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 201697UC70512 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 2016.