B721 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 19 March 2018 at 17:38 involving a Scania lorry
A car and a Scania lorry were involved in a crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway at 17:38 on Monday 19 March 2018. The 71-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 2018
- Monday, 17:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.9969, longitude -3.08404, in the DG16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018984104418
- 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
- 721
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 75
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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 July 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 23 July 2018
6 m awayRef 2018984110318
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 February 2022
7 m awayRef 2022991148212
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 September 2007
8 m awayRef 2007984136707
Fatal
Peugeot 3008 crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 16 December 2024
9 m awayRef 2024991532468
Slight
Vauxhall Adam crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 11 July 2015
9 m awayRef 2015984122415
Slight
Citroen DS4 crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 31 March 2017
16 m awayRef 2017984106117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
Vehicle 2: Scania
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 15,607 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2018984104418 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.