A1 crash in the Scottish Borders on 17 June 1990 at 10:55 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the A1 in the Scottish Borders at 10:55 on Sunday 17 June 1990. The 24-year-old male rider 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
- 17 Jun 1990
- Sunday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93962, longitude -2.36097, in the TD13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990950719390
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders, 2 June 2011
20 m awayRef 2011950003950
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders, 1 November 2011
32 m awayRef 2011950007301
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders, 29 November 1997
32 m awayRef 1997951247197
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders, 21 May 1993
36 m awayRef 1993950545393
Serious
Mini One crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders, 11 November 2020
39 m awayRef 2020990998114
Slight
HGV crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders, 12 September 2000
42 m awayRef 2000950008305
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 1990950719390 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.