A712 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 16 May 1998 at 16:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway at 16:30 on Saturday 16 May 1998. The 47-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 1998
- Saturday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.06215, longitude -3.9368, in the DG7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998982010998
- 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
- 712
- 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, 133 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2007.
Slight
Car crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 28 February 2007
133 m awayRef 2007982103107
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 25 November 2019
146 m awayRef 2019980906680
Serious
Triumph Speed Triple 955I crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 26 April 2007
172 m awayRef 2007982108207
Slight
Car crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 11 August 1985
224 m awayRef 1985981380275
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 May 1988
316 m awayRef 1988980020168
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 4 June 2015
410 m awayRef 2015982105115
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 47, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1998982010998 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.