A699 crash in the Scottish Borders on 13 October 2008 at 14:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A699 in the Scottish Borders at 14:00 on Monday 13 October 2008. The 42-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 2008
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.57089, longitude -2.57785, in the TD5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950008375
- 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
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 September 1990.
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 7 September 1990
36 m awayRef 1990951075390
Slight
Triumph crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 2 October 1994
446 m awayRef 1994951056494
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 21 October 2021
548 m awayRef 2021991101351
Serious
Skoda Favorit crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 10 September 1992
648 m awayRef 1992951042292
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 23 September 1995
750 m awayRef 1995950976595
Serious
Car crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 9 April 1983
879 m awayRef 198395483G017
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2008950008375 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.