Unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders EH45 on 30 June 2005 at 14:50 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 14:50 on Thursday 30 June 2005. The 68-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jun 2005
- Thursday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.61984, longitude -3.22755, in the EH45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950005653
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1.0 km away, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2003.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 6 September 2003
1.0 km awayRef 2003950007336
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 26 July 1986
1.3 km awayRef 198695786G028
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 30 December 1979
1.4 km awayRef 197995D79G038
Serious
Massey Ferguson crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 4 April 1993
1.4 km awayRef 1993950368193
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 19 June 1997
1.5 km awayRef 1997950631197
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 23 December 2008
1.6 km awayRef 2008950000046
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2005950005653 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.