{"id":744587,"date":"2026-08-21T00:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744587\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T00:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:44:12","slug":"man-charged-after-lorry-crash-causes-giant-cable-drums-to-fall-onto-a77-road-near-kilmarnock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744587\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after lorry crash causes giant cable drums to fall onto A77 road near Kilmarnock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after a lorry crash on the A77 near Kilmarnock.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on the busy dual carriageway at around 1.30pm on August 20, between the Bellfield Interchange and the Grassyards Interchange.<\/p>\n<p>One vehicle, an HGV lorry, was involved.<\/p>\n<p>STV News understands the crash caused several large cable drums to fall onto the road.<\/p>\n<p>Police were forced to close the northbound carriageway due to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The B7073 London Road was also closed in both directions to drivers and pedestrians at its junction with Wellpark Avenue and Billy Bowie Park.<\/p>\n<p>Police have confirmed no one was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>A man has been charged in connection with a road traffic offence.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said: \u201cThe A77 northbound, Kilmarnock and the B7073 London Road at its junction with Wellpark Avenue and Billy Bowie Park have reopened following a one vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice were called to the scene at around 1.30pm on Thursday, 20 August, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo injuries were reported. A man was charged in connection with a road traffic offence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged after a lorry crash on the A77 near Kilmarnock. The incident occurred on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-744587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}