A72 crash in the Scottish Borders on 12 August 2016 at 18:45 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A72 in the Scottish Borders at 18:45 on Friday 12 August 2016. A 32-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2016
- Friday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.64253, longitude -3.10145, in the EH44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016950003858
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 2015.
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 21 September 2015
11 m awayRef 2015950004178
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 20 October 2005
12 m awayRef 2005950009228
Slight
Car crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 15 February 1983
14 m awayRef 198395283G012
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 28 December 2012
21 m awayRef 2012950000031
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 19 September 1993
21 m awayRef 1993951017593
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 24 October 1981
21 m awayRef 198195O81G037
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2016950003858 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.