B708 crash in the Scottish Borders on 1 July 1998 at 15:00 involving a Nissan Sunny
A Nissan Sunny crashed on the B708 in the Scottish Borders at 15:00 on Wednesday 1 July 1998. A 70-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 1998
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Sunny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.51235, longitude -3.0625, in the TD7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998950632198
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 708
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 560 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 1998.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A708 in the Scottish Borders, 23 April 1998
560 m awayRef 1998950399098
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the A708 in the Scottish Borders, 29 May 2020
616 m awayRef 2020990954105
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A708 in the Scottish Borders, 31 May 2025
875 m awayRef 2025991596735
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A708 in the Scottish Borders, 4 March 1998
943 m awayRef 1998950234798
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A708 in the Scottish Borders, 26 March 2018
1.0 km awayRef 2018950000401
Slight
Car crash on the A708 in the Scottish Borders, 11 August 1983
1.1 km awayRef 198395883G044
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,270 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Sunny)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1998950632198 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.