{"id":59684,"date":"2026-08-29T18:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/driver-critically-ill-after-crash-involving-police-car-in-east-ayrshire\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:02:55","slug":"driver-critically-ill-after-crash-involving-police-car-in-east-ayrshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/driver-critically-ill-after-crash-involving-police-car-in-east-ayrshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver critically ill after crash involving police car in East Ayrshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A driver is in a critical condition in hospital after a crash involving  a marked police car and a third vehicle in East Ayrshire.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The collision happened on the A76 at Mauchline at about 14:40 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 56-year-old man who was driving a Seat Mii was taken by air ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two officers in the police car and another driver who was in a BYD Dolphin did not require hospital treatment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sgt Gordon Stewart, of Police Scotland, said: &#8220;I am appealing to anyone who was in the area around the time of the crash to contact us with any information. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If anyone has dash-cam footage, please check it as it could have captured images which could assist our enquiries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c24jn9gg51po?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver is in a critical condition in hospital after a crash involving a marked police car and a third vehicle in East Ayrshire. The collision happened on the A76 at Mauchline at about 14:40 on Friday. A 56-year-old man who was driving a Seat Mii was taken by air ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[10418,558,327,2176,4823,140,2177,9363,599],"class_list":["post-59684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-ayrshire","tag-car","tag-crash","tag-critically","tag-driver","tag-east","tag-ill","tag-involving","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59686,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59684\/revisions\/59686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}