Serious A703 crash in the Scottish Borders on 2 July 2006 at 12:40 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders at 12:40 on Sunday 2 July 2006. The 45-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Jul 2006
- Sunday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.70141, longitude -3.21228, in the EH45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950005713
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 December 1997.
Serious
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 23 December 1997
20 m awayRef 1997951360997
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 27 March 2005
20 m awayRef 2005950002695
Slight
Car crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 9 January 1984
22 m awayRef 198495184G006
Serious
Car crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 22 September 1989
30 m awayRef 198995989G036
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 29 October 1998
30 m awayRef 1998951068598
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 5 July 1984
45 m awayRef 198495784G005
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 45, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2006950005713 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.