A72 crash in the Scottish Borders on 12 May 1998 at 19:45 involving a Lada Samara
A Lada Samara hit a pedestrian on the A72 in the Scottish Borders at 19:45 on Tuesday 12 May 1998. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 1998
- Tuesday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lada Samara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.65181, longitude -3.18944, in the EH45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peebles.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998950458098
- 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
- 30 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 2005.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 24 February 2005
At the same spotRef 2005950001760
Slight
Car crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 3 September 2002
10 m awayRef 2002950007938
Serious
Car crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 16 April 1981
10 m awayRef 198195481G019
Serious
Car crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 23 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198595D85G025
Slight
Car crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 8 July 1992
10 m awayRef 1992950765192
Slight
Car crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 25 January 1986
10 m awayRef 198695186G025
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lada Samara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,288 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Lada Samara)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1998950458098 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.