{"id":56975,"date":"2026-07-19T16:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/police-appeal-after-man-dies-following-crash-near-lochmaben\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:32:17","slug":"police-appeal-after-man-dies-following-crash-near-lochmaben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/police-appeal-after-man-dies-following-crash-near-lochmaben\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal after man dies following crash near Lochmaben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A man has died following a crash on the B7020 road near Lochmaben in Dumfries and Galloway.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident involving a white Ford Transit van happened about 10:20 on Sunday near Kinnel Hook. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services attended and the driver, a 66-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene. His family is aware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The road was closed for crash investigation work and re-opened about 16:30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police Scotland&#8217;s Sgt Lindsey Tait said: &#8220;Our thoughts are with the family of the man who has died and they have asked for privacy at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances and we are appealing to anyone who saw what happened to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotland.police.uk\/contact-us\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">get in touch<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwyj4geq4v6o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died following a crash on the B7020 road near Lochmaben in Dumfries and Galloway. The incident involving a white Ford Transit van happened about 10:20 on Sunday near Kinnel Hook. Emergency services attended and the driver, a 66-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene. His family is aware. The road was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[3529,327,1017,16035,417,599],"class_list":["post-56975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-appeal","tag-crash","tag-dies","tag-lochmaben","tag-man","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56977,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56975\/revisions\/56977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}