A72 crash in the Scottish Borders on 13 May 1990 at 00:30 involving a Honda Prelude
A Honda Prelude crashed on the A72 in the Scottish Borders at 00:30 on Sunday 13 May 1990. The 22-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
- 13 May 1990
- Sunday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Prelude
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.65127, longitude -3.26999, in the EH45 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990950573290
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 72
- 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
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 April 2015.
Serious
Rover 45 crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 18 April 2015
2 m awayRef 2015950001977
Serious
Minibus crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 6 January 1982
60 m awayRef 198295182G018
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B712 in the Scottish Borders, 9 May 2004
72 m awayRef 2004950003919
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on the B712 in the Scottish Borders, 23 August 1991
78 m awayRef 1991950945191
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 12 January 2001
80 m awayRef 2001950000417
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 9 August 1993
82 m awayRef 1993950845693
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Prelude
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,602 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Prelude)
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 1990950573290 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 1990.