Serious B793 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 25 August 2013 at 22:25
A vehicle crashed on the B793 in Dumfries and Galloway at 22:25 on Sunday 25 August 2013. The 27-year-old male driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Aug 2013
- Sunday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.91626, longitude -3.74082, in the DG5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013983130413
- 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
- 793
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 May 2016.
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the B793 in Dumfries and Galloway, 15 May 2016
4 m awayRef 2016982104916
Serious
Yamaha FZS 1000 crash on the B793 in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 June 2010
9 m awayRef 2010982110810
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the B793 in Dumfries and Galloway, 9 October 2009
33 m awayRef 2009983139609
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B793 in Dumfries and Galloway, 25 September 2014
401 m awayRef 2014983127814
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A76 in Dumfries and Galloway, 16 July 2003
805 m awayRef 2003983045203
Slight
Taxi crash on the B793 in Dumfries and Galloway, 30 November 1999
847 m awayRef 1999982020699
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
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 2013983130413 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.