B7007 crash in the Scottish Borders on 26 September 2004 at 12:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the B7007 in the Scottish Borders at 12:00 on Sunday 26 September 2004. The 49-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2004
- Sunday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.74997, longitude -3.0312, in the EH38 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004950008305
- 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
- 7007
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 July 2000.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B7007 in the Scottish Borders, 21 July 2000
10 m awayRef 2000950006486
Fatal
Land Rover 110 crash on the B7007 in the Scottish Borders, 30 May 1993
82 m awayRef 1993950582693
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the B7007 in the Scottish Borders, 29 July 2013
89 m awayRef 2013950003937
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 6 November 2013
142 m awayRef 2013950006020
Slight
Car crash on the B7007 in Midlothian, 20 September 2000
237 m awayRef 2000950009139
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 1 September 2013
314 m awayRef 2013950004972
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 2004950008305 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.