A745 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 25 September 2022 at 13:20 involving a Yamaha XJR motorcycle
A Yamaha XJR motorcycle crashed on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway at 13:20 on Sunday 25 September 2022. A 62-year-old female passenger and the 62-year-old male rider were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Sep 2022
- Sunday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha XJR
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.923, longitude -3.85728, 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
- 2022991223129
- 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
- A
- First road number
- 745
- 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
- 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, 39 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 January 1988
39 m awayRef 1988980020006
Slight
Car crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 1 October 1981
39 m awayRef 1981981355488
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 March 2016
74 m awayRef 2016982102216
Serious
Car crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 1 March 1979
83 m awayRef 1979980314100
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 2 June 2014
90 m awayRef 2014982106914
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 24 December 2001
104 m awayRef 2001982024301
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XJR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 62, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XJR)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 62, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XJR)
- 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 2022991223129 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 2022.