A72 crash in the Scottish Borders on 27 September 2000 at 08:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A72 in the Scottish Borders at 08:15 on Wednesday 27 September 2000. The 17-year-old female driver and a 17-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2000
- Wednesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.62533, longitude -3.03174, in the EH43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950008713
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 December 1988.
Serious
Car crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 9 December 1988
41 m awayRef 198895D88G016
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 6 September 1990
60 m awayRef 1990951072290
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 26 May 2019
137 m awayRef 2019950000635
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 7 August 1995
180 m awayRef 1995950794795
Slight
Car crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 5 September 1985
281 m awayRef 198595985G008
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 3 August 2001
332 m awayRef 2001950006679
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2000950008713 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.