A710 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 23 August 2004 at 08:52 involving a car
A car crashed on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway at 08:52 on Monday 23 August 2004. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 2004
- Monday, 08:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.92675, longitude -3.59462, in the DG2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004983153304
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 December 2019.
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 31 December 2019
58 m awayRef 2019980938595
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 29 January 1997
81 m awayRef 1997983004597
Serious
Car crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 May 1983
136 m awayRef 1983980597169
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 January 2011
233 m awayRef 2011983100711
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 January 2010
275 m awayRef 2010983102110
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 July 2021
460 m awayRef 2021991069484
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, 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 2004983153304 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 2004.