A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 4 October 2005 at 20:02 involving a car
A car crashed on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 20:02 on Tuesday 4 October 2005. The 19-year-old female driver 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
- 4 Oct 2005
- Tuesday, 20:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.78456, longitude -2.95318, in the EH38 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950008640
- 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
- 7
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 5 December 1986
20 m awayRef 198695D86G003
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 17 July 1980
36 m awayRef 198095780G028
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 24 January 2002
42 m awayRef 2002950000730
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 4 March 2009
50 m awayRef 2009950002439
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 14 September 1982
50 m awayRef 198295982G021
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 2 October 1993
50 m awayRef 1993951069093
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, 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 2005950008640 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.