Serious A697 crash in the Scottish Borders on 4 December 2000 at 13:55 involving a car

A car crashed on the A697 in the Scottish Borders at 13:55 on Monday 4 December 2000. A 46-year-old male passenger and the 23-year-old female driver were seriously injured and a 38-year-old male 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: Serious
Date: 4 Dec 2000; Monday, 13:55
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 3; 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 2000950011207
Council area: Scottish Borders
Police force: Lothian and Borders
Police attended the scene: No

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 697
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 60 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres
Second road class: Unclassified

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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
South
Skidding and overturning
Skidded and overturned
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
23 years

Casualties (3)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
Serious
Male, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
Serious
Female, aged 23, 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 2000950011207 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.