Unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders TD1 on 29 April 2000 at 15:45 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 15:45 on Saturday 29 April 2000. The 20-year-old male driver of the car 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
- 29 Apr 2000
- Saturday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.61101, longitude -2.80847, in the TD1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Galashiels.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950003878
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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, 82 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 1996.
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 23 April 1996
82 m awayRef 1996950412596
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 19 February 1983
108 m awayRef 198395283G015
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 20 July 2004
148 m awayRef 2004950006060
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 17 December 1982
150 m awayRef 198295D82G019
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 22 June 2000
170 m awayRef 2000950005579
Serious
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 15 November 2007
188 m awayRef 2007950009532
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 2000950003878 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.