B729 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 26 August 2014 at 17:15 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 crashed on the B729 in Dumfries and Galloway at 17:15 on Tuesday 26 August 2014. The 33-year-old male driver was 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
- 26 Aug 2014
- Tuesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.09937, longitude -3.65834, in the DG2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014983126414
- 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
- 729
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 2012.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B729 in Dumfries and Galloway, 30 January 2012
25 m awayRef 2012983102912
Slight
Van crash on the B729 in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 March 1989
85 m awayRef 1989980030133
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B729 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 October 2013
164 m awayRef 2013983137313
Fatal
Car crash on the B729 in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 September 2001
262 m awayRef 2001983051501
Fatal
Car crash on the B729 in Dumfries and Galloway, 10 August 2001
306 m awayRef 2001983044301
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the B729 in Dumfries and Galloway, 22 March 2014
315 m awayRef 2014983110114
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
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 2014983126414 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 2014.