A746 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 30 May 2012 at 01:31 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on the A746 in Dumfries and Galloway at 01:31 on Wednesday 30 May 2012. The 18-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
- 30 May 2012
- Wednesday, 01:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.82709, longitude -4.45134, in the DG8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012981109912
- 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
- 746
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 153 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 1980.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A746 in Dumfries and Galloway, 1 March 1980
153 m awayRef 1980980297100
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A746 in Dumfries and Galloway, 28 June 2003
161 m awayRef 2003981020403
Serious
Volvo 340 crash on the A746 in Dumfries and Galloway, 15 September 1996
324 m awayRef 1996981026996
Slight
Suzuki Celerio crash on the A746 in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 January 2024
355 m awayRef 2024991408256
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A746 in Dumfries and Galloway, 1 January 1995
440 m awayRef 1995981000295
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the B7004 in Dumfries and Galloway, 17 December 2023
550 m awayRef 2023991392563
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
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 2012981109912 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 2012.