Serious B7005 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 14 December 1995 at 11:30 involving a Fiat Uno
A Fiat Uno crashed on the B7005 in Dumfries and Galloway at 11:30 on Thursday 14 December 1995. The 24-year-old male driver was 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
- 14 Dec 1995
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Uno
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.87658, longitude -4.45633, in the DG8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995981038595
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7005
- 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, 141 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 August 1997.
Serious
Hyundai X2 crash on the B7005 in Dumfries and Galloway, 28 August 1997
141 m awayRef 1997981022897
Slight
Car crash on the B75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 16 January 1989
200 m awayRef 1989980010010
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the B7005 in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 December 2009
202 m awayRef 2009981130109
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 31 December 1997
300 m awayRef 1997981037697
Slight
Car crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 19 August 1987
361 m awayRef 1987981458332
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 17 September 2018
457 m awayRef 2018981110418
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Uno)
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 1995981038595 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.