A697 crash in the Scottish Borders on 12 November 2003 at 06:15 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A697 in the Scottish Borders at 06:15 on Wednesday 12 November 2003. The 24-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
- 12 Nov 2003
- Wednesday, 06:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.72365, longitude -2.68216, in the TD2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950009422
- 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
- 697
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 1995.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 29 August 1995
At the same spotRef 1995950882995
Serious
Car crash on the A97 in the Scottish Borders, 20 May 1986
30 m awayRef 198695586G024
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 27 June 2017
35 m awayRef 2017950001634
Slight
Car crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 7 November 1988
41 m awayRef 198895N88G008
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 16 December 1993
51 m awayRef 1993951400493
Serious
Lorry crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 1 July 1985
71 m awayRef 198595785G002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 2003950009422 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.