A746 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 22 July 2006 at 20:01 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A746 in Dumfries and Galloway at 20:01 on Saturday 22 July 2006. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jul 2006
- Saturday, 20:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.74339, longitude -4.42049, in the DG8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006981115906
- 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
- 746
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A746 in Dumfries and Galloway, 23 November 2004
36 m awayRef 2004981136204
Serious
Volvo 244 crash on the A746 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 April 1997
100 m awayRef 1997981009697
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A746 in Dumfries and Galloway, 26 October 2000
110 m awayRef 2000981030000
Slight
Car crash on the A747 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 August 1979
112 m awayRef 1979981191450
Serious
Car crash on the A746 in Dumfries and Galloway, 28 April 1984
219 m awayRef 1984980602140
Slight
Car crash on the A746 in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 March 1986
228 m awayRef 1986980460102
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 2006981115906 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 2006.