Serious unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders EH44 on 8 April 2007 at 15:15 involving a Ford Fusion
A Ford Fusion hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 15:15 on Sunday 8 April 2007. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Apr 2007
- Sunday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fusion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.61931, longitude -3.06286, in the EH44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950003072
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 1998.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 29 May 1998
14 m awayRef 1998950577798
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 1 July 1996
22 m awayRef 1996950656596
Slight
Peugeot 504 crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 18 September 1990
22 m awayRef 1990951114190
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 23 November 2018
30 m awayRef 2018950001591
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 17 February 2003
36 m awayRef 2003950001613
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 11 December 1987
36 m awayRef 198795D87G017
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fusion)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2007950003072 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 2007.