A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 5 October 1990 at 18:15 involving a Ford Transit minibus
A Ford Transit minibus crashed on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 18:15 on Friday 5 October 1990. A 10-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1990
- Friday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.80523, longitude -2.83562, 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
- 1990951200690
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 68
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 July 2006.
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 2 July 2006
22 m awayRef 2006950005724
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 25 July 1992
32 m awayRef 1992950832592
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 14 September 2006
50 m awayRef 2006950008110
Fatal
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 6 September 1985
102 m awayRef 198595985G012
Serious
Lorry crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 22 January 1986
140 m awayRef 198695186G022
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 26 December 2023
167 m awayRef 2023991393137
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 1990951200690 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.