A697 crash in the Scottish Borders on 7 August 1989 at 09:55 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders at 09:55 on Monday 7 August 1989. The 53-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 1989
- Monday, 09:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.76452, longitude -2.76877, in the TD2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198995889G008
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 697
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2004.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 20 September 2004
32 m awayRef 2004950008087
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 12 November 1989
58 m awayRef 198995N89G033
Slight
Car crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 9 March 1994
71 m awayRef 1994950310094
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 5 November 2025
111 m awayRef 2025991664256
Serious
Peugeot 406 crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 11 May 2008
120 m awayRef 2008950004149
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 14 December 1993
170 m awayRef 1993951385093
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198995889G008 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 1989.