A747 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 7 December 2017 at 13:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A747 in Dumfries and Galloway at 13:30 on Thursday 7 December 2017. The 53-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow and high winds on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2017
- Thursday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.86094, longitude -4.76939, in the DG8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017981118317
- 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
- 747
- 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
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 43 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2007.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A747 in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 October 2007
43 m awayRef 2007981125407
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A747 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 December 1996
105 m awayRef 1996981036696
Slight
Iveco crash on the A747 in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 March 2009
207 m awayRef 2009981106209
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A747 in Dumfries and Galloway, 23 June 1982
398 m awayRef 1982980787270
Slight
Car crash on the A747 in Dumfries and Galloway, 19 December 2009
506 m awayRef 2009981128909
Slight
Car crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 1 November 1985
551 m awayRef 1985982028416
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2017981118317 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 2017.