Serious A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 12 April 2000 at 18:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 18:30 on Wednesday 12 April 2000. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Apr 2000
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.46887, longitude -2.7918, 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
- 2000950003380
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 14 March 2001
10 m awayRef 2001950002480
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 11 September 2009
72 m awayRef 2009950006622
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 6 January 1994
81 m awayRef 1994950018394
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 2 January 1980
81 m awayRef 198095180G001
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 30 December 1992
86 m awayRef 1992951556492
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 25 October 1981
134 m awayRef 198195O81G038
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2000950003380 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 2000.