A72 crash in the Scottish Borders on 22 August 2003 at 19:45 involving a Citroen ZX
A Citroen ZX crashed on the A72 in the Scottish Borders at 19:45 on Friday 22 August 2003. A 19-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2003
- Friday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen ZX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.62345, longitude -3.05202, in the EH44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950006856
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 July 2004.
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 28 July 2004
22 m awayRef 2004950006308
Fatal
Mini Countryman crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 23 April 2022
25 m awayRef 2022991169331
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 12 August 2007
28 m awayRef 2007950006961
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 27 February 2004
32 m awayRef 2004950001926
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 12 December 2017
42 m awayRef 2017950002610
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 13 May 2007
42 m awayRef 2007950004157
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen ZX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen ZX)
- 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 2003950006856 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.