A72 crash in the Scottish Borders on 28 November 2010 at 13:50 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A72 in the Scottish Borders at 13:50 on Sunday 28 November 2010. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 2010
- Sunday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.64251, longitude -3.24351, in the EH45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950008817
- 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
- 72
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 11 March 1991.
Fatal
Kawasaki crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 11 March 1991
14 m awayRef 1991950292291
Serious
Car crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 1 March 1988
22 m awayRef 198895388G001
Serious
Suzuki GSX 1300 crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 31 August 2024
29 m awayRef 2024991485863
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 16 January 2000
32 m awayRef 2000950000433
Fatal
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 29 May 2001
54 m awayRef 2001950004726
Slight
Car crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 22 April 1989
71 m awayRef 198995489G024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2010950008817 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 2010.