A6089 crash in the Scottish Borders on 2 August 2009 at 02:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders at 02:00 on Sunday 2 August 2009. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2009
- Sunday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.69779, longitude -2.59213, 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
- 2009950005908
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 7 March 2006
10 m awayRef 2006950002037
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 22 May 2015
46 m awayRef 2015950002439
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 16 April 2017
74 m awayRef 201795STS1188
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 3 September 2017
92 m awayRef 2017950001950
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 27 February 1992
220 m awayRef 1992950241792
Slight
Van crash on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders, 19 March 1979
228 m awayRef 197995379G031
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, 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 2009950005908 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 2009.