A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 3 August 2007 at 14:30 involving a Fiat Cinquecento
A Fiat Cinquecento crashed on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 14:30 on Friday 3 August 2007. The 62-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2007
- Friday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Cinquecento
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.34783, longitude -2.92059, 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
- 2007950006783
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 7
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2007.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 20 September 2007
42 m awayRef 2007950008134
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 31 October 2003
126 m awayRef 2003950009045
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 18 August 2004
198 m awayRef 2004950007090
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 10 March 1989
228 m awayRef 198995389G013
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 28 December 1987
234 m awayRef 198795D87G034
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 2 August 2000
277 m awayRef 2000950006880
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Cinquecento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- 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
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Cinquecento)
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 2007950006783 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.