A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 29 August 2017 at 01:10 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A Vauxhall Insignia crashed on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 01:10 on Tuesday 29 August 2017. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Aug 2017
- Tuesday, 01:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Insignia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.78612, longitude -2.95631, 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
- 2017950001914
- 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
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 1991.
Slight
Bus crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 27 November 1991
32 m awayRef 1991951371791
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 2 December 1988
39 m awayRef 198895D88G002
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 8 January 2008
68 m awayRef 2008950001085
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 23 September 2009
88 m awayRef 2009950007074
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 30 July 1997
89 m awayRef 1997950778897
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 15 January 1989
95 m awayRef 198995189G011
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Insignia)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2017950001914 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 2017.