A699 crash in the Scottish Borders on 18 November 2006 at 22:00 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A699 in the Scottish Borders at 22:00 on Saturday 18 November 2006. The 18-year-old female driver and a 19-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 2006
- Saturday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.55066, longitude -2.76032, in the TD6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950010397
- 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
- 699
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a fatal crash on 14 July 2013.
Fatal
Seat Leon crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 14 July 2013
38 m awayRef 2013950003514
Slight
Volvo crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 24 November 2004
117 m awayRef 2004950010519
Slight
Toyota Paseo crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 15 November 2007
180 m awayRef 2007950009531
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 18 October 2000
184 m awayRef 2000950009465
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 31 January 1990
191 m awayRef 1990950135390
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 29 April 1981
283 m awayRef 198195481G039
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
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 and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2006950010397 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.