A76 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 5 December 2025 at 20:30 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series crashed on the A76 in Dumfries and Galloway at 20:30 on Friday 5 December 2025. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2025
- Friday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.18569, longitude -3.72759, in the DG3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025991679643
- 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
- 76
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with 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, 16 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 December 2025.
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A76 in Dumfries and Galloway, 6 December 2025
16 m awayRef 2025991681317
Fatal
Kawasaki crash on the A76 in Dumfries and Galloway, 16 May 1997
96 m awayRef 1997983021597
Slight
Lorry crash on the A76 in Dumfries and Galloway, 10 December 1982
96 m awayRef 1982981747584
Slight
BMW X3 crash on the A76 in Dumfries and Galloway, 19 March 2018
98 m awayRef 2018983108218
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A76 in Dumfries and Galloway, 14 December 1996
196 m awayRef 1996983055296
Slight
Lorry crash on the A76 in Dumfries and Galloway, 5 January 1988
196 m awayRef 1988980030013
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025991679643 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.