A76 crash in East Ayrshire on 26 July 2018 at 16:00 involving an Iveco van
An Iveco van, a Vauxhall Astra and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire at 16:00 on Thursday 26 July 2018. A 2-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra and the 49-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2018
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Iveco and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.49559, longitude -4.34068, in the KA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201897UC40707
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 713
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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2012.
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the B713 in East Ayrshire, 18 June 2012
2 m awayRef 201297UC40906
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B713 in East Ayrshire, 27 May 2007
2 m awayRef 200797UC08505
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 21 September 2009
2 m awayRef 200997UC42109
Serious
Mazda CX-3 crash on the B713 in East Ayrshire, 17 November 2023
6 m awayRef 2023991376417
Slight
Car crash on the A76 in East Ayrshire, 10 September 2015
7 m awayRef 201597UC70209
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B713 in East Ayrshire, 18 January 2022
7 m awayRef 2022991133692
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Iveco
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,880 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 201897UC40707 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 2018.