Serious A75 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 16 March 1990 at 21:05 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway at 21:05 on Friday 16 March 1990. The 49-year-old male driver 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
- 16 Mar 1990
- Friday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.06208, longitude -3.49522, in the DG1 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990983011990
- 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, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 November 1994.
Serious
Scania crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 25 November 1994
100 m awayRef 1994983070594
Slight
Volvo crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 April 1995
100 m awayRef 1995983018795
Serious
Porsche 911 crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 October 2025
120 m awayRef 2025991650624
Fatal
HGV crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 19 June 2002
141 m awayRef 2002983035602
Slight
Car crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 22 June 1998
141 m awayRef 1998983030898
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 September 1996
141 m awayRef 1996983038896
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 49, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 1990983011990 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 1990.