B725 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 8 November 1991 at 17:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway at 17:30 on Friday 8 November 1991. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 1991
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.04742, longitude -3.36632, in the DG11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991984057091
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 June 1990.
Serious
Lorry crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 23 June 1990
At the same spotRef 1990984033190
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 May 2019
165 m awayRef 2019984106919
Slight
Car crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 15 July 1982
200 m awayRef 1982980878302
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 May 2013
541 m awayRef 2013984118013
Serious
Renault Extra crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 March 1994
608 m awayRef 1994984015094
Slight
Car crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 November 1979
721 m awayRef 1979981738639
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, 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 1991984057091 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 1991.