A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 1 March 1993 at 07:00 involving a Mercedes van
A Mercedes van crashed on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 07:00 on Monday 1 March 1993. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 1993
- Monday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.49047, longitude -2.83543, in the TD7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993950238693
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 7
- 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a fatal crash on 15 August 2023.
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 15 August 2023
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Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 25 February 1996
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Serious
Van crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 6 November 1979
91 m awayRef 197995N79G018
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 31 December 2008
130 m awayRef 2008950000002
Slight
Van crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 29 October 1981
170 m awayRef 198195O81G048
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 23 February 2007
210 m awayRef 2007950001698
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
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 1993950238693 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 1993.