A713 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 26 March 1995 at 14:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A713 in Dumfries and Galloway at 14:35 on Sunday 26 March 1995. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 1995
- Sunday, 14:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.9645, longitude -3.97271, in the DG7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995982005695
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 713
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 141 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A713 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 October 1985
141 m awayRef 1985981851381
Serious
Car crash on the A713 in Dumfries and Galloway, 16 July 1982
158 m awayRef 1982980933324
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A713 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 December 1998
200 m awayRef 1998982022698
Serious
Hyundai i30 crash on the B795 in Dumfries and Galloway, 29 October 2025
268 m awayRef 2025991664850
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A713 in Dumfries and Galloway, 19 July 1995
316 m awayRef 1995982013495
Slight
Van crash on the A713 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 February 1979
316 m awayRef 1979980252073
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 1995982005695 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.