A75 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 20 June 2016 at 15:50 involving a Vauxhall Movano
A Vauxhall Movano and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway at 15:50 on Monday 20 June 2016. The 35-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra and a 54-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jun 2016
- Monday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Movano and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.87003, longitude -4.07313, in the DG6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016982106516
- 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
- 75
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 January 2017
22 m awayRef 2017982100417
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 12 May 2025
29 m awayRef 2025991603838
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 30 November 1995
46 m awayRef 1995982023495
Slight
Car crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 7 July 1990
46 m awayRef 1990982015490
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 August 1996
82 m awayRef 1996982016996
Serious
Car crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 December 1983
90 m awayRef 1983981839535
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Movano
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016982106516 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 2016.