Unclassified road crash in Dumfries and Galloway DG11 on 18 March 2021 at 16:10 involving a Saab 9-3
A Saab 9-3 crashed on an unclassified road in Dumfries and Galloway at 16:10 on Thursday 18 March 2021. A 19-year-old male passenger and a 22-year-old female passenger were 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
- 18 Mar 2021
- Thursday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Saab 9-3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.04681, longitude -3.28192, in the DG11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021991031246
- 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
- Unclassified
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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, 381 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 2006.
Slight
Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox crash on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway, 7 August 2006
381 m awayRef 2006984129206
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway, 13 April 1980
510 m awayRef 1980980515181
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway, 29 December 2000
514 m awayRef 2000984049600
Slight
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 13 July 2001
518 m awayRef 2001984028601
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 17 September 2000
539 m awayRef 2000984034000
Slight
Car crash on the B725 in Dumfries and Galloway, 9 March 1984
539 m awayRef 1984980396095
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Saab 9-3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Saab 9-3)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2021991031246 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 2021.