B709 crash in the Scottish Borders on 22 April 1991 at 00:01 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the B709 in the Scottish Borders at 00:01 on Monday 22 April 1991. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Apr 1991
- Monday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.65371, longitude -3.06044, in the EH44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991950451791
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 709
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2014.
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the B709 in the Scottish Borders, 10 March 2014
63 m awayRef 2014950001397
Serious
Car crash on the B709 in the Scottish Borders, 6 September 2003
301 m awayRef 2003950007315
Slight
Honda CBR1100XX crash on the B709 in the Scottish Borders, 29 June 2003
362 m awayRef 2003950005328
Slight
Honda crash on the B709 in the Scottish Borders, 8 May 2013
496 m awayRef 2013950002444
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B709 in the Scottish Borders, 4 February 2004
563 m awayRef 2004950001004
Serious
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the B709 in the Scottish Borders, 22 March 2010
694 m awayRef 2010950002196
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 1991950451791 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 1991.