A72 crash in the Scottish Borders on 26 April 2000 at 14:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A72 in the Scottish Borders at 14:20 on Wednesday 26 April 2000. The 51-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 2000
- Wednesday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.67217, longitude -3.32841, in the EH45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950003814
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 72
- 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, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2003.
Slight
Subaru Forester crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 12 June 2003
61 m awayRef 2003950004812
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 30 May 2002
70 m awayRef 2002950004806
Serious
Triumph Tiger crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 7 August 2005
80 m awayRef 2005950006784
Slight
Subaru Legacy crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 22 November 2004
80 m awayRef 2004950010260
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 11 June 1997
80 m awayRef 1997950593597
Slight
Bus crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 1 October 1998
100 m awayRef 1998950962298
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2000950003814 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.