Unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders TD8 on 19 December 1989 at 18:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 18:00 on Tuesday 19 December 1989. The 42-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1989
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.47718, longitude -2.54847, in the TD8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Jedburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198995D89G031
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 10 May 1987
At the same spotRef 198795587G018
Slight
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 19 December 1986
10 m awayRef 198695D86G039
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 9 October 2003
10 m awayRef 2003950008631
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 27 August 2003
10 m awayRef 2003950007007
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 15 January 1997
20 m awayRef 1997950046297
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 42, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198995D89G031 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.