{"id":570788,"date":"2026-05-07T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570788\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:16:09","slug":"man-who-died-after-being-hit-by-car-in-dumfries-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570788\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who died after being hit by car in Dumfries named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who died after being struck by a car in the early hours of Sunday morning in Dumfries has been named.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the A75, between the roundabout at Lockerbie Road and the roundabout for the A701, at around 3am.<\/p>\n<p>A pedestrian was struck by a silver Ford Fiesta, which subsequently crashed into a silver lorry travelling in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Wight, aged 43, was pronounced dead at the scene.  No other serious injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Road Policing Sergeant Wayne Carnochan said: \u201cOur thoughts remain with Graham\u2019s family and friends at this extremely difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur enquiries into the crash continue and I\u2019d like to thank everyone who has come forward with information already. I\u2019d ask anyone who hasn\u2019t yet spoken to police, and witnessed the collision or has dash-cam footage which could assist us, to get in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those with information are urged to contact Police Scotland on 101, quoting incident number 0526 of May 3, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who died after being struck by a car in the early hours of Sunday morning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-570788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}