B722 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 3 December 2010 at 18:56 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna crashed on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway at 18:56 on Friday 3 December 2010. The 49-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2010
- Friday, 18:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.02036, longitude -3.23481, 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
- 2010984140210
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 282 metres away, was a fatal crash on 31 July 1996.
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 31 July 1996
282 m awayRef 1996984028496
Slight
Car crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 7 March 2007
318 m awayRef 2007984109007
Serious
Car crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 June 2002
419 m awayRef 2002984022302
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 12 July 2008
488 m awayRef 2008984126808
Slight
Car crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 October 2001
531 m awayRef 2001984046701
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B722 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 December 2015
650 m awayRef 2015984139715
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
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 2010984140210 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.