Unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders TD6 on 6 September 2007 at 08:30 involving a MAN van
A MAN van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 08:30 on Thursday 6 September 2007. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 2007
- Thursday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- MAN
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.5764, longitude -2.67802, in the TD6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950007893
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 2004.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 30 March 2004
28 m awayRef 2004950002682
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 2 June 1992
28 m awayRef 1992950632792
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B6398 in the Scottish Borders, 29 August 1998
92 m awayRef 1998950847998
Slight
Van crash on the B6398 in the Scottish Borders, 27 October 1989
99 m awayRef 198995O89G045
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 24 November 1996
139 m awayRef 1996951235796
Slight
Car crash on the B6398 in the Scottish Borders, 7 July 1983
163 m awayRef 198395783G018
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MAN
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (MAN)
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 2007950007893 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.