A699 crash in the Scottish Borders on 1 June 2008 at 12:55 involving a Fiat Panda
A Fiat Panda crashed on the A699 in the Scottish Borders at 12:55 on Sunday 1 June 2008. The 25-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
- 1 Jun 2008
- Sunday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Panda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.56608, longitude -2.60585, in the TD6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950004580
- 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
- 699
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 2017.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 5 June 2017
33 m awayRef 2017950001447
Slight
Car crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 23 November 1982
51 m awayRef 198295N82G032
Slight
Renault 11 crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 7 September 1992
100 m awayRef 1992951032792
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 26 August 2002
210 m awayRef 2002950007665
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 25 May 2008
240 m awayRef 2008950004540
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 22 February 1998
247 m awayRef 1998950193998
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)
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 2008950004580 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 2008.