A6088 crash in the Scottish Borders on 18 May 2007 at 21:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders at 21:30 on Friday 18 May 2007. The 19-year-old male 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
- 18 May 2007
- Friday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.40441, longitude -2.69276, 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
- 2007950004351
- 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
- 6088
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 136 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 2002.
Slight
Ford Maverick crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 21 July 2002
136 m awayRef 2002950006407
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 17 August 2008
158 m awayRef 2008950007094
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 29 September 1993
192 m awayRef 1993951055393
Slight
Leyland Constructor crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 28 June 1991
416 m awayRef 1991950715991
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 7 May 1994
582 m awayRef 1994950508394
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 7 October 1995
774 m awayRef 1995951039295
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2007950004351 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 2007.