C road crash in Dumfries and Galloway DG4 on 2 May 2008 at 11:06 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway at 11:06 on Friday 2 May 2008. A 12-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2008
- Friday, 11:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.37577, longitude -3.98101, in the DG4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008983125908
- 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
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 190 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 2019.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 March 2019
190 m awayRef 2019983106719
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 23 February 1991
574 m awayRef 1991983008391
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 May 2001
637 m awayRef 2001983027401
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 March 1979
653 m awayRef 1979980426137
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 1 May 1994
653 m awayRef 1994983026394
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 June 1995
685 m awayRef 1995983031495
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2008983125908 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.