C road crash in Dumfries and Galloway DG2 on 17 July 2018 at 13:45 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia, a Mercedes Sprinter van and a Dacia Sandero were involved in a crash on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway at 13:45 on Tuesday 17 July 2018. The 53-year-old male driver of the Mercedes Sprinter van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2018
- Tuesday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Skoda Fabia and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.06827, longitude -3.62012, in the DG2 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
- 2018983118418
- 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
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 780
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2023.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A780 in Dumfries and Galloway, 28 August 2023
3 m awayRef 2023991351420
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 December 2025
4 m awayRef 2025991683463
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A780 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 December 2012
4 m awayRef 2012983148012
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A780 in Dumfries and Galloway, 21 April 2017
6 m awayRef 2017983110717
Serious
Car crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 March 1984
36 m awayRef 1984980418097
Slight
Car crash on the A780 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 December 2018
41 m awayRef 2018983134918
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Dacia Sandero
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 898 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018983118418 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.