A714 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 16 April 2002 at 16:10 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway at 16:10 on Tuesday 16 April 2002. The 30-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2002
- Tuesday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.84679, longitude -4.46391, in the DG8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002981011202
- 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
- 714
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 13 July 2009
22 m awayRef 2009981114609
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 December 2021
23 m awayRef 2021991125061
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 26 September 2022
26 m awayRef 2022991225986
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 1 January 1993
100 m awayRef 1993981001693
Slight
Car crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 28 March 1981
158 m awayRef 1981980427129
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A714 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 September 2006
192 m awayRef 2006981119106
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, 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 2002981011202 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 2002.