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A75 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 3 July 1982 at 10:00 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway at 10:00 on Saturday 3 July 1982. A 70-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
3 Jul 1982
Saturday, 10:00
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.88193, longitude -4.17602, in the DG7 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982980820280
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
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 1986.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    South East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Straight ahead at junction
    Hit object off carriageway
    Entered ditch
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    73 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Towing and articulation
    Caravan
    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Jackknifed and overturned
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    64 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 70, 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 1982980820280 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 1982.