Serious B725 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 27 July 1993 at 12:00 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 crashed on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway at 12:00 on Tuesday 27 July 1993. The 23-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jul 1993
- Tuesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.04164, longitude -3.40055, in the DG11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993984034393
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 200 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 September 2002.
Serious
Car crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 11 September 2002
200 m awayRef 2002984040702
Slight
Car crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 January 1980
361 m awayRef 1980980025010
Serious
Car crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 13 June 1988
447 m awayRef 1988980040258
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 15 June 2009
469 m awayRef 2009983124309
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 10 September 2000
569 m awayRef 2000984033900
Serious
Car crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 April 1991
632 m awayRef 1991984017191
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
- 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 1993984034393 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 1993.