Unclassified road crash in Dumfries and Galloway DG9 on 29 December 2017 at 11:55 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway at 11:55 on Friday 29 December 2017. The 83-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2017
- Friday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.69213, longitude -4.88853, in the DG9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017981119917
- 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
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 320 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2000.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 11 November 2000
320 m awayRef 2000981031600
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 11 August 1979
358 m awayRef 1979981136423
Slight
Vauxhall Grandland crash on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 July 2024
468 m awayRef 2024991476287
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B7041 in Dumfries and Galloway, 10 January 2007
491 m awayRef 2007981101507
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 10 August 1991
496 m awayRef 1991981020891
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A716 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 August 1982
532 m awayRef 1982981113395
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2017981119917 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.