A697 crash in the Scottish Borders on 24 March 2005 at 15:55 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the A697 in the Scottish Borders at 15:55 on Thursday 24 March 2005. The 41-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2005
- Thursday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.71778, longitude -2.70291, in the TD2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950002620
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 October 2018.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 13 October 2018
10 m awayRef 2018950001399
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 17 August 1989
67 m awayRef 198995889G031
Slight
Car crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 10 September 1983
143 m awayRef 198395983G010
Serious
Kia Sportage crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 26 January 2025
155 m awayRef 2025991546412
Serious
Car crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 10 July 2000
193 m awayRef 2000950006151
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 28 February 2007
198 m awayRef 2007950001793
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 2005950002620 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 2005.