A710 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 22 December 2000 at 23:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway at 23:00 on Friday 22 December 2000. The 30-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2000
- Friday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.91841, longitude -3.81757, in the DG5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000982022800
- 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
- 710
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 February 1984
100 m awayRef 1984980211055
Fatal
Car crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 25 July 1986
100 m awayRef 1986981284304
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 13 April 1979
141 m awayRef 1979980522181
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 August 1997
141 m awayRef 1997982016197
Serious
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 January 2022
214 m awayRef 2022991132306
Serious
Car crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 11 April 1979
224 m awayRef 1979980478157
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2000982022800 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.