A747 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 25 March 1995 at 10:14 involving a Fiat Fiorino van
A Fiat Fiorino van hit a pedestrian on the A747 in Dumfries and Galloway at 10:14 on Saturday 25 March 1995. A 3-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Mar 1995
- Saturday, 10:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Fiorino
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.75979, longitude -4.58293, in the DG8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995981009495
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 747
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A747 in Dumfries and Galloway, 26 May 1997
100 m awayRef 1997981014597
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 July 1979
100 m awayRef 1979980886336
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A747 in Dumfries and Galloway, 7 December 2001
100 m awayRef 2001981035301
Slight
Car crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 12 December 1987
141 m awayRef 19879801R2287
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A747 in Dumfries and Galloway, 7 July 1984
141 m awayRef 1984980967232
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the B7085 in Dumfries and Galloway, 17 June 1997
224 m awayRef 1997981015497
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Fiorino
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,697 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Fiorino)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1995981009495 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.