A72 crash in the Scottish Borders on 26 February 1998 at 16:00 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza crashed on the A72 in the Scottish Borders at 16:00 on Thursday 26 February 1998. The 45-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 1998
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.61896, longitude -2.87484, in the TD1 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998950219098
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 72
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2001.
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 31 March 2001
41 m awayRef 2001950003035
Slight
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 1 February 2002
99 m awayRef 2002950001104
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 7 May 2023
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 3 May 2014
112 m awayRef 2014950002481
Serious
Car crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 15 August 1986
125 m awayRef 198695886G014
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
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 1998950219098 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 1998.