A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 30 January 2016 at 01:30 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 01:30 on Saturday 30 January 2016. The 22-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow and high winds on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2016
- Saturday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.78397, longitude -2.95213, in the EH38 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016950000748
- 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
- 7
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 27 May 1980
6 m awayRef 198095580G028
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 8 October 2001
6 m awayRef 2001950008845
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 10 September 1981
6 m awayRef 198195981G010
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 12 June 1979
6 m awayRef 197995679G013
Serious
Van crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 10 June 1988
6 m awayRef 198895688G028
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 24 April 2017
6 m awayRef 2017950001214
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016950000748 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 2016.