Serious A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 19 June 1994 at 14:10 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 14:10 on Sunday 19 June 1994. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jun 1994
- Sunday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 4
- 1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.33471, longitude -2.93903, in the TD9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994950669094
- 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
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 28 March 1980
22 m awayRef 198095380G026
Slight
Lorry crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 21 March 1979
100 m awayRef 197995379G033
Slight
Lorry crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 31 August 1984
149 m awayRef 198495884G038
Fatal
Honda Civic crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 29 April 2018
179 m awayRef 2018950000564
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 31 December 1996
192 m awayRef 1996950015697
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 5 August 1979
202 m awayRef 197995879G004
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- 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
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1994950669094 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 1994.