A710 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 2 August 2003 at 10:30 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara and a Toyota Corolla were involved in a crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway at 10:30 on Saturday 2 August 2003. A 57-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Corolla and the 67-year-old female driver of the Toyota Corolla were 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
- 2 Aug 2003
- Saturday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xsara and Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.92182, longitude -3.81757, in the DG5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003982017303
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 2011.
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 July 2011
10 m awayRef 2011982109511
Slight
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 19 September 1992
22 m awayRef 1992982022992
Serious
Car crash on the A701 in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 July 1981
120 m awayRef 1981980989348
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 June 2002
136 m awayRef 2002982012502
Serious
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 January 2022
177 m awayRef 2022991132306
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 August 2001
320 m awayRef 2001982014001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
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 2003982017303 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 2003.