A711 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 30 January 1998 at 14:00 involving a Ford bus
A Ford bus crashed on the A711 in Dumfries and Galloway at 14:00 on Friday 30 January 1998. A 93-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 1998
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.93633, longitude -3.81991, in the DG5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dalbeattie.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998982003398
- 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
- 711
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 1 July 1980.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 1 July 1980
At the same spotRef 1980980886323
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A711 in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 January 2001
100 m awayRef 2001982001501
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A711 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 July 1989
100 m awayRef 1989982017889
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A711 in Dumfries and Galloway, 4 March 1998
100 m awayRef 1998982004798
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 December 1983
100 m awayRef 1983981787524
Serious
Renault Kadjar crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 25 October 2019
113 m awayRef 2019980891945
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 93, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 1998982003398 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.