A781 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 17 February 2013 at 01:22 involving a Renault Laguna taxi
A Renault Laguna taxi hit a pedestrian on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway at 01:22 on Sunday 17 February 2013. A 62-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2013
- Sunday, 01:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.06917, longitude -3.61652, in the DG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dumfries. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nith, Dumfries and Galloway, DG1 2BJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013983106113
- 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
- 781
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 780
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 32%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 68%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 2025.
Slight
Ssangyong Musso crash on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025991675101
Slight
Car crash on the A780 in Dumfries and Galloway, 1 March 2008
13 m awayRef 2008983112708
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A780 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 May 2011
13 m awayRef 2011983117111
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway, 16 September 2021
13 m awayRef 2021991091352
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 23 March 2006
14 m awayRef 2006983114006
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A780 in Dumfries and Galloway, 4 February 2012
14 m awayRef 2012983104112
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 62, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2013983106113 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 2013.