Serious B722 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 7 December 1997 at 01:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway at 01:30 on Sunday 7 December 1997. The 36-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Dec 1997
- Sunday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.04094, longitude -3.2143, in the DG11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997984042397
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Highway authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 722
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 84 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 January 2013.
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 January 2013
84 m awayRef 2013984101313
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 30 November 2009
220 m awayRef 2009984145509
Slight
Car crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 December 2006
340 m awayRef 2006984152206
Slight
Car crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 January 1999
361 m awayRef 1999984003699
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 29 May 2025
369 m awayRef 2025991596209
Serious
Car crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 October 2024
383 m awayRef 2024991502657
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 36, 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 1997984042397 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.