B737 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 30 January 1998 at 17:15 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on the B737 in Dumfries and Galloway at 17:15 on Friday 30 January 1998. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 1998
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90414, longitude -5.02745, in the DG9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stranraer.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998981004198
- 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
- 737
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 77
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A718 in Dumfries and Galloway, 9 December 1989
At the same spotRef 1989980060146
Slight
Car crash on the B737 in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 April 2002
At the same spotRef 2002981008902
Serious
Car crash on the A718 in Dumfries and Galloway, 9 December 1992
At the same spotRef 1992986015192
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A718 in Dumfries and Galloway, 13 July 1990
At the same spotRef 1990986009990
Slight
Car crash on the A717 in Dumfries and Galloway, 17 December 1983
At the same spotRef 1983981855542
Slight
Car crash on the A717 in Dumfries and Galloway, 12 July 1987
At the same spotRef 1987981174259
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1998981004198 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 1998.