B709 crash in the Scottish Borders on 22 March 1998 at 19:15 involving a Nissan Sunny
A Nissan Sunny crashed on the B709 in the Scottish Borders at 19:15 on Sunday 22 March 1998. The 35-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
- 22 Mar 1998
- Sunday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Sunny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.68917, longitude -3.04407, in the EH44 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998950292298
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 709
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 487 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 January 1987.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B709 in the Scottish Borders, 4 January 1987
487 m awayRef 198795187G008
Slight
Car crash on the B7007 in the Scottish Borders, 25 September 2008
608 m awayRef 2008950007794
Serious
Ford Ranger crash on the B709 in the Scottish Borders, 13 September 2018
795 m awayRef 2018950001251
Serious
Triumph Daytona crash on the B709 in the Scottish Borders, 31 July 2024
2.0 km awayRef 2024991474793
Slight
Honda Integra crash on the B709 in the Scottish Borders, 26 October 1998
2.4 km awayRef 1998951057598
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B709 in the Scottish Borders, 30 May 2001
2.4 km awayRef 2001950004763
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Sunny)
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 1998950292298 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 1998.