A699 crash in the Scottish Borders on 27 September 2003 at 00:04 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A699 in the Scottish Borders at 00:04 on Saturday 27 September 2003. The 17-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
- 27 Sep 2003
- Saturday, 00:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59511, longitude -2.45983, in the TD5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950007964
- 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
- 699
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 20 July 1989
32 m awayRef 198995789G018
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 3 March 2005
94 m awayRef 2005950001968
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 9 December 2002
117 m awayRef 2002950011278
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 16 March 2019
170 m awayRef 2019950000326
Slight
Car crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 26 October 1989
230 m awayRef 198995O89G044
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 2 February 2011
420 m awayRef 2011950001296
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,488 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2003950007964 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.