A6105 crash in the Scottish Borders on 2 August 2008 at 08:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders at 08:30 on Saturday 2 August 2008. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2008
- Saturday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.78993, longitude -2.27235, in the TD11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950006791
- 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
- 6105
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 2003.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 10 December 2003
10 m awayRef 2003950010666
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 18 December 1997
20 m awayRef 1997951334097
Serious
Car crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 25 May 1986
20 m awayRef 198695586G046
Slight
Car crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 7 September 2010
30 m awayRef 2010950006631
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 25 November 2021
92 m awayRef 2021991114652
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 18 September 2014
112 m awayRef 2014950004897
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2008950006791 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.