A701 crash in the Scottish Borders on 21 May 2007 at 10:25 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series crashed on the A701 in the Scottish Borders at 10:25 on Monday 21 May 2007. The 18-year-old female 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
- 21 May 2007
- Monday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.57238, longitude -3.39657, in the ML12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950004387
- 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
- 701
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 April 2004.
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 14 April 2004
20 m awayRef 2004950003079
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 15 August 2007
30 m awayRef 2007950007053
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 11 September 2007
51 m awayRef 2007950007679
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 21 July 1981
71 m awayRef 198195781G047
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 20 September 1992
73 m awayRef 1992951086192
Serious
Honda VTR1000F crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 29 June 2003
82 m awayRef 2003950005342
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
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 2007950004387 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.