Fatal B7004 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 18 January 1994 at 12:00 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 crashed on the B7004 in Dumfries and Galloway at 12:00 on Tuesday 18 January 1994. The 41-year-old male driver was killed.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 18 Jan 1994
- Tuesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.79978, longitude -4.38632, in the DG8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994981003294
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7004
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 182 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 2005.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B7004 in Dumfries and Galloway, 29 December 2005
182 m awayRef 2005981135405
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B7004 in Dumfries and Galloway, 26 February 2003
200 m awayRef 2003981006103
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B7004 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 February 1998
200 m awayRef 1998981004698
Serious
Car crash on the B7004 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 September 1988
224 m awayRef 1988980010209
Serious
Ford Transit Connect crash on the B7004 in Dumfries and Galloway, 12 March 2022
236 m awayRef 2022991153113
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the B7004 in Dumfries and Galloway, 13 October 2017
298 m awayRef 2017981114717
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
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 1994981003294 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 1994.