B722 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 12 July 2008 at 05:14 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway at 05:14 on Saturday 12 July 2008. The 21-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
- 12 Jul 2008
- Saturday, 05:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.02347, longitude -3.22943, in the DG12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008984126808
- 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
- 722
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2001.
Slight
Car crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 October 2001
45 m awayRef 2001984046701
Slight
Volvo C70 crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 16 September 2018
248 m awayRef 2018984112818
Slight
Car crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 1 March 1981
305 m awayRef 1981980321096
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 6 December 2006
417 m awayRef 2006984148806
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 December 2010
488 m awayRef 2010984140210
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 November 1996
519 m awayRef 1996984044996
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
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 and overturned
- 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
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2008984126808 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.