Serious A1107 crash in the Scottish Borders on 8 May 2003 at 18:30 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 and a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1107 in the Scottish Borders at 18:30 on Thursday 8 May 2003. The 29-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 May 2003
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 405 and Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88216, longitude -2.14463, in the TD14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950003994
- 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
- 1107
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A1107 in the Scottish Borders, 29 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198495O84G032
Slight
Car crash on the A1107 in the Scottish Borders, 11 January 1991
10 m awayRef 1991950040691
Serious
Car crash on the A1107 in the Scottish Borders, 9 August 1981
28 m awayRef 198195881G022
Slight
Car crash on the A1107 in the Scottish Borders, 11 April 2000
50 m awayRef 2000950003320
Slight
Car crash on the A1107 in the Scottish Borders, 14 September 1979
50 m awayRef 197995979G024
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A1107 in the Scottish Borders, 16 January 1986
57 m awayRef 198695186G017
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 2003950003994 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 2003.