Serious unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders TD5 on 24 December 2014 at 10:50 involving a Suzuki SX4
A Suzuki SX4 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 10:50 on Wednesday 24 December 2014. An 18-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
- 24 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki SX4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59825, longitude -2.43376, in the TD5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kelso. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kelso and District, Scottish Borders, TD5 7BA 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
- 2014950006818
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 1996.
Slight
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 29 September 1996
5 m awayRef 1996951058496
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 11 August 1998
10 m awayRef 1998950775498
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 22 October 2005
10 m awayRef 2005950009263
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 13 June 1999
24 m awayRef 1999950005575
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 29 February 2008
34 m awayRef 2008950002354
Slight
Car crash on the B9080 in the Scottish Borders, 23 December 1999
34 m awayRef 1999950012392
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SX4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki SX4)
- 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 2014950006818 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.