Serious B740 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 10 March 2015 at 20:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the B740 in Dumfries and Galloway at 20:00 on Tuesday 10 March 2015. The 46-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Mar 2015
- Tuesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.40576, longitude -3.90865, in the DG4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015983107715
- 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
- 740
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 September 2009.
Serious
Yamaha SR 125 crash on the B740 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 September 2009
5 m awayRef 2009983137509
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the B740 in Dumfries and Galloway, 28 February 2024
9 m awayRef 2024991417913
Slight
Car crash on the B740 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 January 1979
47 m awayRef 1979980170049
Slight
Car crash on the B740 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 January 1980
59 m awayRef 1980980122047
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B740 in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 January 1992
188 m awayRef 1992983003492
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B740 in Dumfries and Galloway, 17 April 1999
188 m awayRef 1999983016999
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 46, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 2015983107715 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 2015.