Unclassified road crash in Dumfries and Galloway DG1 on 7 April 1996 at 23:50 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway at 23:50 on Sunday 7 April 1996. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 1996
- Sunday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.07061, longitude -3.60203, in the DG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dumfries.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996983017296
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Highway authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2018.
Slight
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Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the A780 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 February 2021
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Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the A780 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 June 2012
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Slight
Mini One crash on the A780 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 March 2007
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Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A780 in Dumfries and Galloway, 22 October 1998
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Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A709 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 October 1996
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,304 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1996983017296 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 1996.