A75 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 11 July 1981 at 08:45 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway at 08:45 on Saturday 11 July 1981. The 66-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 1981
- Saturday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.98357, longitude -3.20006, in the DG12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981980940327
- 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
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 6 October 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway, 6 October 1989
At the same spotRef 1989980040527
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 July 2019
33 m awayRef 2019980856310
Slight
Car crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway, 19 July 1999
94 m awayRef 1999984028799
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 26 August 1995
100 m awayRef 1995984038895
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 September 1998
100 m awayRef 1998984032598
Slight
Taxi crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 June 1979
141 m awayRef 1979980774280
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, 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 1981980940327 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 1981.