A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 14 October 2006 at 09:50 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza crashed on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 09:50 on Saturday 14 October 2006. The 82-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 2006
- Saturday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.44202, longitude -2.77482, in the TD9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950009088
- 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
- 7
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6359
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2014.
Slight
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Serious
Honda CBR600F crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 12 July 2001
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Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 3 April 1982
130 m awayRef 198295482G002
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 27 January 1985
158 m awayRef 198595185G030
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 7 February 2004
248 m awayRef 2004950001455
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
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 2006950009088 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.