B7059 crash in the Scottish Borders on 29 May 2007 at 13:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the B7059 in the Scottish Borders at 13:50 on Tuesday 29 May 2007. The 49-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
- 29 May 2007
- Tuesday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.6811, longitude -3.3338, in the EH45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950004614
- 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
- 7059
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 344 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B7059 in the Scottish Borders, 23 March 1997
344 m awayRef 1997950318497
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B7059 in the Scottish Borders, 27 October 2006
435 m awayRef 2006950009739
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B7059 in the Scottish Borders, 6 September 1985
590 m awayRef 198595985G015
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 16 July 2006
970 m awayRef 2006950006153
Slight
Car crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 12 November 1982
972 m awayRef 198295N82G015
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 5 April 2015
987 m awayRef 2015950001711
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- 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
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2007950004614 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.