A701 crash in the Scottish Borders on 13 August 2005 at 11:18 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera crashed on the A701 in the Scottish Borders at 11:18 on Saturday 13 August 2005. The 47-year-old female 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
- 13 Aug 2005
- Saturday, 11:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.44171, longitude -3.5034, in the ML12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950006970
- 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
- 701
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 135 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 March 2003.
Serious
MAN crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 15 March 2003
135 m awayRef 2003950002371
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 7 May 1998
180 m awayRef 1998950447398
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 15 April 2004
228 m awayRef 2004950003134
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 23 February 2007
233 m awayRef 2007950001661
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 3 January 1980
233 m awayRef 198095180G002
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 22 May 2010
320 m awayRef 2010950003645
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Almera)
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 2005950006970 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.