B736 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 3 November 2008 at 23:35 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on the B736 in Dumfries and Galloway at 23:35 on Monday 3 November 2008. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2008
- Monday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.90558, longitude -3.89858, in the DG7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008982121008
- 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
- 736
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 92 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B736 in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 June 1979
92 m awayRef 1979980860322
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B736 in Dumfries and Galloway, 30 November 2001
95 m awayRef 2001982021601
Slight
Car crash on the B736 in Dumfries and Galloway, 6 December 1980
298 m awayRef 1980981739624
Slight
Subaru Legacy crash on the B736 in Dumfries and Galloway, 22 January 1999
348 m awayRef 1999982001399
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B736 in Dumfries and Galloway, 6 October 2018
447 m awayRef 2018982109018
Slight
Van crash on the B727 in Dumfries and Galloway, 4 June 1988
594 m awayRef 1988980020128
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 2008982121008 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.