A74 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 8 May 1999 at 13:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A74 in Dumfries and Galloway at 13:20 on Saturday 8 May 1999. The 39-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 1999
- Saturday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.31596, longitude -3.46066, in the DG10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999984018799
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 74
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 5 October 1995.
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A74 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 October 1995
At the same spotRef 1995984043795
Slight
Car crash on the A74 in Dumfries and Galloway, 4 August 1979
At the same spotRef 1979981100414
Serious
MAN crash on the A74(M) in Dumfries and Galloway, 15 October 2025
74 m awayRef 2025991657106
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A74(M) in Dumfries and Galloway, 28 October 2004
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Slight
Porsche Boxster crash on the A74(M) in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 May 2013
133 m awayRef 2013984118613
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A74 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 December 1998
141 m awayRef 1998984050098
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, 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 1999984018799 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 1999.