Serious A698 crash in the Scottish Borders on 13 November 2007 at 17:20 involving a Renault Kangoo van
A Renault Kangoo van crashed on the A698 in the Scottish Borders at 17:20 on Tuesday 13 November 2007. The 55-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Nov 2007
- Tuesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Kangoo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.56421, longitude -2.4563, in the TD5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950009483
- 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
- 698
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 2012.
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 11 September 2012
14 m awayRef 2012950005028
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 16 April 2009
30 m awayRef 2009950002862
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 30 April 2006
73 m awayRef 2006950003719
Slight
Mini One crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 23 June 2017
97 m awayRef 2017950001597
Slight
Minibus crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 8 September 2016
112 m awayRef 2016950004323
Serious
Renault Trafic crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 21 August 2020
117 m awayRef 2020990974673
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Kangoo
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 55, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Kangoo)
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 2007950009483 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.