B727 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 16 June 2008 at 18:37 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa hit a pedestrian on the B727 in Dumfries and Galloway at 18:37 on Monday 16 June 2008. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jun 2008
- Monday, 18:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.88124, longitude -4.18584, in the DG7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008982113408
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 727
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 62 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 2016.
Slight
Bus crash on the B727 in Dumfries and Galloway, 19 September 2016
62 m awayRef 2016982110516
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 4 April 1981
81 m awayRef 1981980476148
Serious
Lexmoto LXR crash on the B727 in Dumfries and Galloway, 13 October 2020
108 m awayRef 2020990995831
Slight
Car crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 7 April 1983
143 m awayRef 1983980515139
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 26 October 2016
174 m awayRef 2016982111516
Slight
Minibus crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 11 April 1979
175 m awayRef 1979980499166
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2008982113408 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 2008.