A70 crash in South Ayrshire on 13 October 2016 at 12:10 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Seat Ibiza were involved in a crash on the A70 in South Ayrshire at 12:10 on Thursday 13 October 2016. The 32-year-old male driver of the Seat Ibiza was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 2016
- Thursday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.44554, longitude -4.5019, in the KA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201697UD03010
- Council area
- South 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 742
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2001.
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A70 in South Ayrshire, 8 December 2001
11 m awayRef 200197UD02812
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the A70 in South Ayrshire, 12 December 2014
18 m awayRef 201497UD03412
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A70 in South Ayrshire, 11 November 2022
29 m awayRef 2022991241351
Fatal
Nissan Primera crash on the A70 in South Ayrshire, 25 January 2005
40 m awayRef 200597UD71101
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in South Ayrshire, 23 September 1989
50 m awayRef 198997RA10209
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in South Ayrshire, 27 August 1984
50 m awayRef 198497RA08808
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Ibiza)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 201697UD03010 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 2016.