B721 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 5 November 2019 at 16:00 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway at 16:00 on Tuesday 5 November 2019. The 52-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2019
- Tuesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.98612, longitude -3.24659, in the DG12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Annan.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019980905583
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 721
- 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
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 1992.
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway, 6 April 1992
45 m awayRef 1992984017492
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 January 1996
71 m awayRef 1996984000596
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway, 10 February 2016
76 m awayRef 2016984106016
Slight
Car crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 October 1985
80 m awayRef 1985981923396
Serious
Lorry crash on the A75 in Dumfries and Galloway, 13 May 1989
80 m awayRef 1989980040241
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the B721 in Dumfries and Galloway, 30 November 1996
133 m awayRef 1996984047096
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019980905583 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 2019.