A6089 crash in the Scottish Borders on 6 July 2008 at 15:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders at 15:15 on Sunday 6 July 2008. The 33-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
- 6 Jul 2008
- Sunday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.70133, longitude -2.60237, in the TD3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950005591
- 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
- 6089
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 24 November 1989
64 m awayRef 198995N89G048
Serious
Van crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 11 April 1985
126 m awayRef 198595485G013
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 19 July 2007
258 m awayRef 2007950006268
Serious
Iveco crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 24 February 2010
258 m awayRef 2010950001711
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 17 August 1988
422 m awayRef 198895888G020
Slight
Van crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 19 March 1979
527 m awayRef 197995379G031
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2008950005591 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.