{"id":700782,"date":"2026-07-20T01:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700782\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T01:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:01:21","slug":"police-appeal-after-man-dies-following-crash-near-lochmaben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700782\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal after man dies following crash near Lochmaben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has died following a crash on the B7020 road near Lochmaben in Dumfries and Galloway.<\/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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">get in touch, external<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died following a crash on the B7020 road near Lochmaben in Dumfries and Galloway. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-700782","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\/700782","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=700782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}