A745 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 5 July 1992 at 09:30 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway at 09:30 on Sunday 5 July 1992. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 1992
- Sunday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.94071, longitude -3.88568, in the DG7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992982015392
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 745
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 2007.
Slight
Car crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 January 2007
32 m awayRef 2007982100607
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 19 September 2025
34 m awayRef 2025991645720
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 4 April 2025
46 m awayRef 2025991573880
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 31 December 2004
85 m awayRef 2004982128904
Slight
Car crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 6 February 1998
100 m awayRef 1998982002698
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 15 May 1996
100 m awayRef 1996982009896
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 1992982015392 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 1992.