Serious A699 crash in the Scottish Borders on 7 September 1990 at 15:30 involving an Austin Metro
An Austin Metro crashed on the A699 in the Scottish Borders at 15:30 on Friday 7 September 1990. The 21-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Sep 1990
- Friday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.57103, longitude -2.57738, in the TD5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990951075390
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 699
- 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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 2008.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 13 October 2008
36 m awayRef 2008950008375
Slight
Triumph crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 2 October 1994
412 m awayRef 1994951056494
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 21 October 2021
584 m awayRef 2021991101351
Serious
Skoda Favorit crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 10 September 1992
614 m awayRef 1992951042292
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 23 September 1995
716 m awayRef 1995950976595
Serious
Car crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 9 April 1983
845 m awayRef 198395483G017
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Metro)
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 1990951075390 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.