B729 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 23 July 2018 at 01:25 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B729 in Dumfries and Galloway at 01:25 on Monday 23 July 2018. The 60-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2018
- Monday, 01:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.18263, longitude -3.84538, in the DG3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018983120318
- 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
- B
- First road number
- 729
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 32%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 68%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 179 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 2022.
Slight
Renault Kadjar crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 30 June 2022
179 m awayRef 2022991206457
Slight
Van crash on the B729 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 February 1994
213 m awayRef 1994983014094
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway, 25 April 1979
269 m awayRef 1979980564192
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the B729 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 June 2025
470 m awayRef 2025991604735
Serious
Kia Cerato crash on the B729 in Dumfries and Galloway, 15 March 2012
506 m awayRef 2012983110312
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B729 in Dumfries and Galloway, 30 November 1996
536 m awayRef 1996983054496
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2018983120318 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.