B6357 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 4 November 2007 at 13:00 involving a Suzuki GSF 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSF 650 motorcycle crashed on the B6357 in Dumfries and Galloway at 13:00 on Sunday 4 November 2007. The 35-year-old male rider 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
- 4 Nov 2007
- Sunday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSF 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.04596, longitude -3.08566, in the DG14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007984145607
- 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
- B
- First road number
- 6357
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 31%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 69%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6357 in Dumfries and Galloway, 9 July 2016
20 m awayRef 2016984122816
Slight
Car crash on the B6357 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 June 1989
73 m awayRef 1989980040291
Slight
Volvo crash on the B6357 in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 August 2014
243 m awayRef 2014984126214
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B6357 in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 January 2005
276 m awayRef 2005984104905
Serious
Honda crash on the B6357 in Dumfries and Galloway, 16 March 2008
294 m awayRef 2008984112208
Slight
Car crash on the B6357 in Dumfries and Galloway, 4 March 2015
457 m awayRef 2015984107915
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSF 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 656 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 650)
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 2007984145607 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 2007.