A701 crash in the Scottish Borders on 21 August 1993 at 20:30 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova crashed on the A701 in the Scottish Borders at 20:30 on Saturday 21 August 1993. The 26-year-old male driver was 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
- 21 Aug 1993
- Saturday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.71144, longitude -3.34962, 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
- 1993950900693
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 701
- 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, 82 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2016.
Slight
Kia Carens crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 26 January 2016
82 m awayRef 2016950000681
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 17 November 1988
85 m awayRef 198895N88G022
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 23 August 2012
120 m awayRef 2012950004601
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 13 June 1982
236 m awayRef 198295682G010
Fatal
Car crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 26 January 2001
326 m awayRef 2001950000888
Slight
Subaru Forester crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 17 January 2010
370 m awayRef 2010950000567
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
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 1993950900693 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.