Serious A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 24 April 1984 at 14:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 14:55 on Tuesday 24 April 1984. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Apr 1984
- Tuesday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.4804, longitude -2.55089, in the TD8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Jedburgh.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198495484G021
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 68
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2000.
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 22 November 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950010720
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 28 January 2003
At the same spotRef 2003950000810
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 13 July 1982
At the same spotRef 198295782G015
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 28 October 2017
5 m awayRef 2017950002296
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 8 October 1988
10 m awayRef 198895O88G010
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 27 October 1989
10 m awayRef 198995O89G046
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 23, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198495484G021 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 1984.