Unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders TD1 on 2 May 2003 at 22:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 22:45 on Friday 2 May 2003. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2003
- Friday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.58529, longitude -2.81143, in the TD1 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950003659
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a fatal crash on 2 February 1987.
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 2 February 1987
50 m awayRef 198795287G003
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 31 August 1998
63 m awayRef 1998950859498
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 12 March 2024
87 m awayRef 2024991420356
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 8 December 2004
92 m awayRef 2004950010844
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 3 January 1981
112 m awayRef 198195181G006
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 26 November 2022
122 m awayRef 2022991247146
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2003950003659 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 2003.