A712 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 25 November 2019 at 17:42 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway at 17:42 on Monday 25 November 2019. The 25-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
- 25 Nov 2019
- Monday, 17:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.06246, longitude -3.93901, in the DG7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019980906680
- 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
- A
- First road number
- 712
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2007.
Slight
Car crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 28 February 2007
14 m awayRef 2007982103107
Slight
Car crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 16 May 1998
146 m awayRef 1998982010998
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 May 1988
265 m awayRef 1988980020168
Serious
Triumph Speed Triple 955I crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 26 April 2007
300 m awayRef 2007982108207
Slight
Car crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 11 August 1985
339 m awayRef 1985981380275
Slight
Car crash on the A712 in Dumfries and Galloway, 7 May 1983
349 m awayRef 1983980642182
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- 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 2019980906680 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.