A1 crash in the Scottish Borders on 6 August 2000 at 19:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A1 in the Scottish Borders at 19:20 on Sunday 6 August 2000. The 35-year-old male driver 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
- 6 Aug 2000
- Sunday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87904, longitude -2.28528, in the TD11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950007007
- 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
- 1
- 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, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 1979.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders, 19 December 1979
50 m awayRef 197995D79G029
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders, 18 February 1997
64 m awayRef 1997950194797
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders, 1 January 2007
78 m awayRef 2007950000021
Serious
Bedford crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders, 8 January 1993
136 m awayRef 1993950027193
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders, 2 November 2012
205 m awayRef 2012950006150
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the B6438 in the Scottish Borders, 25 October 2009
370 m awayRef 2009950008143
Vehicles involved (1)
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
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, 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 2000950007007 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.