Serious A714 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 11 September 1997 at 17:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway at 17:10 on Thursday 11 September 1997. The 39-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured and the 23-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 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
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Sep 1997
- Thursday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.84494, longitude -4.46531, in the DG8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997981024797
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Highway authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 714
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 1989.
Slight
Van crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 22 September 1989
At the same spotRef 1989980020276
Serious
Car crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 16 February 2005
32 m awayRef 2005981104505
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 September 2006
54 m awayRef 2006981119106
Slight
Car crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 28 March 1981
71 m awayRef 1981980427129
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 July 1998
100 m awayRef 1998981020298
Slight
Car crash on the A746 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 February 1980
100 m awayRef 1980980181068
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1997981024797 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 1997.