Serious A75 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 19 April 1980 at 01:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway at 01:10 on Saturday 19 April 1980. A 23-year-old male passenger was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Apr 1980
- Saturday, 01:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.92993, longitude -3.94292, in the DG7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980980562201
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 75
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2012.
Slight
Honda S2000 crash on the B736 in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 May 2012
61 m awayRef 2012982105512
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the B736 in Dumfries and Galloway, 7 January 2010
89 m awayRef 2010982100710
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B736 in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 November 1993
100 m awayRef 1993982026093
Fatal
Car crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 10 March 1980
100 m awayRef 1980980364128
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B736 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 December 2007
190 m awayRef 2007982124207
Serious
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the B736 in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 November 1996
200 m awayRef 1996982023696
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1980980562201 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 1980.