A6089 crash in the Scottish Borders on 3 September 2006 at 18:00 involving a Ford Capri
A Ford Capri crashed on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders at 18:00 on Sunday 3 September 2006. The 33-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
- 3 Sep 2006
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Capri
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.66141, longitude -2.55121, in the TD3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950007702
- 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
- 6089
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 1989.
Slight
Van crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 28 August 1989
14 m awayRef 198995889G063
Slight
Car crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 16 October 1986
32 m awayRef 198695O86G015
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 22 September 1990
132 m awayRef 1990951135990
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 3 January 2016
162 m awayRef 2016950000033
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 20 December 2005
175 m awayRef 2005950011491
Serious
Car crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 23 March 1984
194 m awayRef 198495384G021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Capri
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Capri)
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 2006950007702 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 2006.