B709 crash in the Scottish Borders on 20 September 2006 at 10:15 involving a van
A van crashed on the B709 in the Scottish Borders at 10:15 on Wednesday 20 September 2006. The 42-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2006
- Wednesday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.61758, longitude -3.06583, in the EH44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950008292
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 709
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 January 1999.
Serious
Fiat Brava crash on the B709 in the Scottish Borders, 22 January 1999
10 m awayRef 1999950075899
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 18 July 1997
58 m awayRef 1997950737697
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 10 September 2001
60 m awayRef 2001950007963
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 30 June 1997
61 m awayRef 1997950690297
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 27 May 1987
61 m awayRef 198795587G033
Slight
Bus crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 9 June 1984
73 m awayRef 198495684G008
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 2006950008292 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.