Serious unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders TD7 on 7 January 2014 at 15:55 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 15:55 on Tuesday 7 January 2014. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jan 2014
- Tuesday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.549, longitude -2.84668, in the TD7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Selkirk. It is one of the crashes that make up the Selkirkshire, Scottish Borders, TD7 4LB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950000109
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 2009.
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 29 July 2009
11 m awayRef 2009950005786
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 23 January 1995
12 m awayRef 1995950076495
Slight
Renault 21 crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 11 October 1996
21 m awayRef 1996951032496
Slight
Volvo S60 crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 25 May 2007
21 m awayRef 2007950004573
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 8 June 1997
21 m awayRef 1997950582097
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 7 January 2014
22 m awayRef 2014950000170
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 2014950000109 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 2014.