A745 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 19 September 2025 at 13:32 involving a Land Rover Defender
A Land Rover Defender crashed on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway at 13:32 on Friday 19 September 2025. The 39-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
- 19 Sep 2025
- Friday, 13:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Defender
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.94047, longitude -3.88599, 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
- 2025991645720
- 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
- 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, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 July 1992
34 m awayRef 1992982015392
Slight
Car crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 January 2007
38 m awayRef 2007982100607
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 31 December 2004
54 m awayRef 2004982128904
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 4 April 2025
67 m awayRef 2025991573880
Serious
Car crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 20 April 1999
76 m awayRef 1999982006999
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A745 in Dumfries and Galloway, 15 May 1996
76 m awayRef 1996982009896
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Defender
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
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2025991645720 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 2025.