A710 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 1 June 2023 at 18:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway at 18:20 on Thursday 1 June 2023. The 18-year-old female driver of the Skoda Fabia was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jun 2023
- Thursday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.00234, longitude -3.62287, in the DG2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023991322167
- 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
- 710
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 114 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 August 2000.
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 26 August 2000
114 m awayRef 2000983035500
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 29 May 2012
133 m awayRef 2012983117012
Slight
Car crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 17 October 1999
351 m awayRef 1999983045399
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 30 December 2017
429 m awayRef 2017983139317
Slight
Van crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 September 1982
447 m awayRef 1982981148405
Slight
Car crash on the A710 in Dumfries and Galloway, 9 July 1980
475 m awayRef 1980980975357
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,521 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Fabia)
- 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 2023991322167 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 2023.