A716 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 25 January 1995 at 13:40 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway at 13:40 on Wednesday 25 January 1995. The 26-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 1995
- Wednesday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.85466, longitude -4.99257, in the DG9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995981003195
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 716
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 69 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 2014.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway, 16 November 2014
69 m awayRef 2014981118614
Serious
Car crash on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 May 1991
100 m awayRef 1991981010591
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 January 2018
116 m awayRef 2018981100618
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 January 2000
150 m awayRef 2000981002400
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway, 22 March 2013
170 m awayRef 2013981106313
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway, 12 May 1981
200 m awayRef 1981980633209
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 1995981003195 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 1995.