C road crash in Dumfries and Galloway DG3 on 25 April 1979 at 00:05 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway at 00:05 on Wednesday 25 April 1979. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 1979
- Wednesday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.18488, longitude -3.84693, in the DG3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979980564192
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1979980564192 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dumfries and Galloway road accident statistics for 1979.