Serious A75 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 25 November 2000 at 08:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway at 08:30 on Saturday 25 November 2000. The 22-year-old male rider was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Nov 2000
- Saturday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.036, longitude -3.82759, in the DG2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000982020000
- 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
- 75
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 712
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, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 2007.
Slight
Scania crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 September 2007
71 m awayRef 2007983147207
Slight
Perodua Kelisa crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 February 2009
80 m awayRef 2009983106709
Serious
Volvo crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 November 2022
89 m awayRef 2022991247954
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 28 May 1993
100 m awayRef 1993982011493
Slight
Car crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 April 1980
108 m awayRef 1980980583211
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 13 October 2010
136 m awayRef 2010983144210
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (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 2000982020000 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 2000.