B721 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 19 July 1999 at 05:24 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway at 05:24 on Monday 19 July 1999. A 19-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 1999
- Monday, 05:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.9843, longitude -3.20089, in the DG12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999984028799
- 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
- B
- First road number
- 721
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 1995.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 26 August 1995
54 m awayRef 1995984038895
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 July 2019
72 m awayRef 2019980856310
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 September 1998
94 m awayRef 1998984032598
Serious
Car crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway, 6 October 1989
94 m awayRef 1989980040527
Slight
Car crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 11 July 1981
94 m awayRef 1981980940327
Slight
Taxi crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 June 1979
151 m awayRef 1979980774280
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1999984028799 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.