A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 30 March 2000 at 08:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 08:50 on Thursday 30 March 2000. The 41-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2000
- Thursday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59198, longitude -2.67035, in the TD6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950002953
- 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
- 68
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 2013.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 16 June 2013
16 m awayRef 2013950003447
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 26 October 1998
30 m awayRef 1998951057898
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 13 April 1997
41 m awayRef 1997950388097
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 29 October 2012
50 m awayRef 2012950006064
Slight
Fiat Stilo crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 11 June 2010
61 m awayRef 2010950004175
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 21 October 2008
70 m awayRef 2008950008917
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2000950002953 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 2000.