A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 11 December 1992 at 18:50 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 18:50 on Friday 11 December 1992. The 20-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 1992
- Friday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.4678, longitude -2.55514, in the TD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992951473892
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 2004.
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 13 June 2004
10 m awayRef 2004950004947
Slight
Van crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 7 September 2000
20 m awayRef 2000950008189
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 9 October 1983
20 m awayRef 198395O83G014
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 17 May 2008
40 m awayRef 2008950004567
Slight
Ford crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 14 August 1991
54 m awayRef 1991950905491
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 1 March 2022
59 m awayRef 2022991148925
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1992951473892 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 1992.