A75 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 10 March 2017 at 14:15 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a Mazda 3 were involved in a crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway at 14:15 on Friday 10 March 2017. A 68-year-old female passenger in the Seat Ibiza was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2017
- Friday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.03545, longitude -3.82978, 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
- 2017983106717
- 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
- 30 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 2010.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 13 October 2010
21 m awayRef 2010983144210
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 13 February 2004
72 m awayRef 2004983112404
Serious
Volvo crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 November 2022
77 m awayRef 2022991247954
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 6 August 1993
78 m awayRef 1993982017993
Slight
Perodua Kelisa crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 February 2009
84 m awayRef 2009983106709
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 25 November 2000
154 m awayRef 2000982020000
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017983106717 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.