A703 crash in the Scottish Borders on 25 February 2006 at 18:45 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class hit a pedestrian on the A703 in the Scottish Borders at 18:45 on Saturday 25 February 2006. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 2006
- Saturday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.6608, longitude -3.19259, in the EH45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peebles.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950001729
- 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
- 703
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 28 June 1996
10 m awayRef 1996950648996
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 13 November 1983
10 m awayRef 198395N83G016
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 1 March 1993
14 m awayRef 1993950239293
Serious
Car crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 29 August 1988
22 m awayRef 198895888G051
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 2 November 2011
36 m awayRef 2011950007375
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 18 June 2012
40 m awayRef 2012950003450
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2006950001729 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 2006.