B723 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 22 December 2019 at 05:05 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B723 in Dumfries and Galloway at 05:05 on Sunday 22 December 2019. A 15-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2019
- Sunday, 05:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.99858, longitude -3.28359, in the DG12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019980915602
- 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
- 723
- 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
- Raining, 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, 79 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2010.
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the B723 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 November 2010
79 m awayRef 2010984135510
Slight
Car crash on the B723 in Dumfries and Galloway, 15 September 1987
93 m awayRef 1987981673385
Slight
Car crash on the B723 in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 September 1987
93 m awayRef 1987981632378
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B723 in Dumfries and Galloway, 15 August 2005
108 m awayRef 2005984135305
Serious
Car crash on the B723 in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 August 2001
108 m awayRef 2001984032701
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B723 in Dumfries and Galloway, 22 January 1997
108 m awayRef 1997984002697
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2019980915602 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.