Unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders TD8 on 19 October 2008 at 15:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 15:30 on Sunday 19 October 2008. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 2008
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.48324, longitude -2.54635, in the TD8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Jedburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950008913
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 1996.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 18 February 1996
36 m awayRef 1996950181296
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 9 March 2002
86 m awayRef 2002950002369
Serious
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 23 June 2015
94 m awayRef 2015950003977
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 21 June 1981
108 m awayRef 198195681G028
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 17 May 2008
120 m awayRef 2008950004190
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 10 May 2008
130 m awayRef 2008950005409
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2008950008913 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.