A75 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 17 November 2006 at 17:30 involving a Daihatsu Fourtrak
A Daihatsu Fourtrak and a car were involved in a crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway at 17:30 on Friday 17 November 2006. The 29-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2006
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daihatsu Fourtrak and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.03424, longitude -3.42113, in the DG1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006983160106
- 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
- 75
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2025.
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 11 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025991668027
Serious
Car crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 23 July 1990
30 m awayRef 1990984038090
Fatal
Car crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 January 1988
70 m awayRef 1988980040058
Slight
Lorry crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 December 1990
70 m awayRef 1990984069290
Slight
Car crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 4 June 1987
104 m awayRef 1987980948195
Slight
Lorry crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 4 March 1986
122 m awayRef 1986980511110
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daihatsu Fourtrak
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2006983160106 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.