A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 21 August 1982 at 01:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 01:20 on Saturday 21 August 1982. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 1982
- Saturday, 01:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.45149, longitude -2.77848, in the TD9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198295882G033
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 7
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 April 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 19 April 1981
At the same spotRef 198195481G022
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 2 November 1981
41 m awayRef 198195N81G002
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 18 October 1990
41 m awayRef 1990951256190
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 20 May 2004
51 m awayRef 2004950004183
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 26 May 1981
63 m awayRef 198195581G015
Serious
Chevrolet Aveo crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 9 February 2020
75 m awayRef 2020990928405
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198295882G033 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Scottish Borders road accident statistics for 1982.