B7009 crash in the Scottish Borders on 8 February 2004 at 22:30 involving a Fiat Brava
A Fiat Brava crashed on the B7009 in the Scottish Borders at 22:30 on Sunday 8 February 2004. A 60-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 2004
- Sunday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Brava
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.53513, longitude -2.86713, in the TD7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004950001497
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7009
- 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B7009 in the Scottish Borders, 8 December 1984
51 m awayRef 198495D84G023
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the B7009 in the Scottish Borders, 7 December 2023
104 m awayRef 2023991394534
Serious
Daewoo Leganza crash on the B7009 in the Scottish Borders, 28 March 2001
122 m awayRef 2001950002927
Serious
Car crash on the B7009 in the Scottish Borders, 22 September 1989
389 m awayRef 198995989G053
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B7009 in the Scottish Borders, 14 September 2006
600 m awayRef 2006950008100
Slight
Car crash on the B7009 in the Scottish Borders, 5 March 1989
603 m awayRef 198995389G003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Brava
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,370 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Brava)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2004950001497 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 2004.