Serious A1 crash in the Scottish Borders on 22 June 2005 at 08:20 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo and a car were involved in a crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders at 08:20 on Wednesday 22 June 2005. The 53-year-old female driver of the Citroen Saxo and the 26-year-old female driver of the car were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jun 2005
- Wednesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Saxo and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8547, longitude -2.18303, 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
- 2005950005362
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6438
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 21 May 2005.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2005950005362 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 2005.