Unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders EH46 on 23 August 1991 at 15:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 15:00 on Friday 23 August 1991. The 38-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 1991
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.771, longitude -3.31788, in the EH46 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991950943091
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 January 2007.
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 19 January 2007
57 m awayRef 2007950000539
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 31 March 1991
641 m awayRef 1991950365791
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 8 October 1991
846 m awayRef 1991951140191
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 12 December 2005
907 m awayRef 2005950011185
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the Scottish Borders, 18 July 1984
962 m awayRef 198495784G016
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the Scottish Borders, 15 May 1982
1.0 km awayRef 198295582G022
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 1991950943091 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.