A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 18 June 2008 at 20:08 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 20:08 on Wednesday 18 June 2008. A 64-year-old male passenger in the car and the 63-year-old female driver of the car were 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
- 18 Jun 2008
- Wednesday, 20:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 400 Series and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.36332, longitude -2.89113, 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
- 2008950005116
- 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
- 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
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2007.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 13 July 2007
At the same spotRef 2007950006118
Slight
Van crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 7 September 1981
At the same spotRef 198195981G044
Serious
Yamaha YZF crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 9 March 2025
4 m awayRef 2025991563027
Slight
MAN crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 10 September 2013
22 m awayRef 2013950004745
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 15 September 2008
72 m awayRef 2008950007625
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 10 April 1996
122 m awayRef 1996950363696
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2008950005116 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.