B7005 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 13 August 2020 at 10:50 involving a Volkswagen Urban
A Volkswagen Urban crashed on the B7005 in Dumfries and Galloway at 10:50 on Thursday 13 August 2020. The 68-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Aug 2020
- Thursday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Urban
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.85587, longitude -4.51302, in the DG8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020990978720
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7005
- 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
- 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, 334 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2020.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B7005 in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 October 2020
334 m awayRef 2020990997335
Slight
Car crash on the B7005 in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 November 1982
1.3 km awayRef 1982981643558
Serious
Ford Transit Connect crash on the B7005 in Dumfries and Galloway, 7 July 2015
1.7 km awayRef 2015981110215
Serious
Car crash on the B7052 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 March 2006
1.9 km awayRef 2006981105306
Slight
Ducati crash on the B7005 in Dumfries and Galloway, 18 January 1998
1.9 km awayRef 1998981000798
Serious
Car crash on the B7005 in Dumfries and Galloway, 23 October 2002
2.0 km awayRef 2002981031602
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Urban
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Urban)
- 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 2020990978720 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 2020.