A703 crash in the Scottish Borders on 2 November 2005 at 11:00 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on the A703 in the Scottish Borders at 11:00 on Wednesday 2 November 2005. The 31-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
- 2 Nov 2005
- Wednesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.78293, longitude -3.21928, in the EH46 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950009701
- 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
- 703
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 1995.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A703 in Midlothian, 25 February 1995
14 m awayRef 1995950210595
Slight
Car crash on the A703 in Midlothian, 6 December 1985
73 m awayRef 198595D85G031
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 17 December 2009
100 m awayRef 2009950010084
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 10 September 2010
112 m awayRef 2010950006778
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 8 December 2012
210 m awayRef 2012950006975
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A703 in Midlothian, 17 December 2006
309 m awayRef 2006950011472
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,343 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
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 2005950009701 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.