Serious A781 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 17 February 2008 at 18:43 involving a Mazda 5
A Mazda 5 hit a pedestrian on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway at 18:43 on Sunday 17 February 2008. A 44-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Feb 2008
- Sunday, 18:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.06848, longitude -3.61529, in the DG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dumfries. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nith, Dumfries and Galloway, DG1 2BJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008983110408
- 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
- 781
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 March 2017
2 m awayRef 2017983107417
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 29 April 2024
6 m awayRef 2024991437200
Slight
Taxi crash on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 March 2007
10 m awayRef 2007983116807
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 25 February 2006
14 m awayRef 2006983109906
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway, 17 February 2018
20 m awayRef 2018983104418
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 November 2022
21 m awayRef 2022991250498
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 5)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 2008983110408 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.