C road crash in Dumfries and Galloway DG6 on 16 February 2010 at 13:34 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 crashed on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway at 13:34 on Tuesday 16 February 2010. The 70-year-old male driver and a 71-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2010
- Tuesday, 13:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.79306, longitude -4.10999, in the DG6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010982103810
- 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
- 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
- 38%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 62%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 341 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2001.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 31 May 2001
341 m awayRef 2001982010001
Serious
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 22 February 2008
1.2 km awayRef 2008982105208
Slight
Dodge crash on the B727 in Dumfries and Galloway, 1 October 1996
1.2 km awayRef 1996982021496
Serious
Honda crash on the B727 in Dumfries and Galloway, 12 June 2001
1.2 km awayRef 2001982013001
Slight
Car crash on the B727 in Dumfries and Galloway, 10 April 2005
1.3 km awayRef 2005982106105
Slight
Honda CBF125M crash on the B727 in Dumfries and Galloway, 15 February 2016
1.4 km awayRef 2016982101916
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
- 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 2010982103810 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 2010.