A6088 crash in the Scottish Borders on 16 February 2004 at 05:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders at 05:10 on Monday 16 February 2004. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2004
- Monday, 05:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.35814, longitude -2.51024, in the TD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004950002083
- 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
- 6088
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 2016.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 17 July 2016
11 m awayRef 2016950003496
Serious
Car crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 9 June 1988
76 m awayRef 198895688G016
Slight
Saab 9-5 crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 15 September 2024
781 m awayRef 2024991492023
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 24 January 2008
841 m awayRef 2008950000896
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 2 November 1994
844 m awayRef 1994951179494
Slight
Car crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 7 April 1989
891 m awayRef 198995489G017
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, 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 2004950002083 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.