B725 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 26 June 1986 at 07:50 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway at 07:50 on Thursday 26 June 1986. The 34-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jun 1986
- Thursday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.04819, longitude -3.59801, in the DG1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986981093263
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 725
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 2004.
Slight
Mitsubishi Galant crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 March 2004
36 m awayRef 2004983121804
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 December 1980
100 m awayRef 1980981785636
Serious
Car crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 29 May 1983
141 m awayRef 1983980699196
Slight
Car crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 23 February 1990
141 m awayRef 1990983009090
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 April 2019
202 m awayRef 2019983109519
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 November 1986
283 m awayRef 1986982008473
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1986981093263 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 1986.