A70 crash in South Ayrshire on 14 November 2018 at 11:00 involving a Hyundai Getz
A Hyundai Getz crashed on the A70 in South Ayrshire at 11:00 on Wednesday 14 November 2018. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2018
- Wednesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai Getz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.4526, longitude -4.56265, 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
- 201897UD00911
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 February 2009.
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A70 in South Ayrshire, 14 February 2009
9 m awayRef 200997UD70502
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A70 in South Ayrshire, 21 September 1995
41 m awayRef 199597RA05909
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A70 in South Ayrshire, 22 March 1997
41 m awayRef 199797RA70503
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in South Ayrshire, 28 June 1987
41 m awayRef 198797RA10506
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A70 in South Ayrshire, 25 December 2016
58 m awayRef 201697UD05812
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in South Ayrshire, 4 August 1980
71 m awayRef 198097RA02908
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Getz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai Getz)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201897UD00911 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 2018.