A781 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 17 February 2018 at 00:50 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa hit a pedestrian on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway at 00:50 on Saturday 17 February 2018. A 53-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2018
- Saturday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.06858, longitude -3.61548, in the DG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dumfries. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nith, Dumfries and Galloway, DG1 2BJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018983104418
- 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
- 781
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Pedestrian in carriageway, not injured
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 35%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 65%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 January 2008.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway, 19 January 2008
7 m awayRef 2008983104308
Slight
Optare Solo crash on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway, 26 March 2007
7 m awayRef 2007983115507
Slight
Taxi crash on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 March 2007
15 m awayRef 2007983116807
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway, 23 September 2006
17 m awayRef 2006983148706
Serious
Mazda 5 crash on the A781 in Dumfries and Galloway, 17 February 2008
20 m awayRef 2008983110408
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 29 April 2024
20 m awayRef 2024991437200
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2018983104418 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 2018.