A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 20 September 2007 at 09:20 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van crashed on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 09:20 on Thursday 20 September 2007. The 39-year-old male 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
- 20 Sep 2007
- Thursday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.34755, longitude -2.92106, 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
- 2007950008134
- 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
- 7
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 2007.
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 3 August 2007
42 m awayRef 2007950006783
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 18 August 2004
156 m awayRef 2004950007090
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 31 October 2003
166 m awayRef 2003950009045
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 10 March 1989
186 m awayRef 198995389G013
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 28 December 1987
192 m awayRef 198795D87G034
Fatal
Renault crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 10 December 2015
269 m awayRef 2015950005640
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
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 2007950008134 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.