A701 crash in the Scottish Borders on 14 September 1998 at 08:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on the A701 in the Scottish Borders at 08:00 on Monday 14 September 1998. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 1998
- Monday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.7068, longitude -3.35423, in the EH46 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998950902598
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 August 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 17 August 1985
10 m awayRef 198595885G023
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 20 March 1984
20 m awayRef 198495384G016
Serious
Car crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 25 April 1983
20 m awayRef 198395483G028
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 14 March 2024
33 m awayRef 2024991421985
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 16 December 1998
67 m awayRef 1998951266998
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 9 February 2008
73 m awayRef 2008950001455
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1998950902598 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.