Serious B7059 crash in the Scottish Borders on 24 September 2009 at 16:00 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van crashed on the B7059 in the Scottish Borders at 16:00 on Thursday 24 September 2009. The 29-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Sep 2009
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.69429, longitude -3.3352, in the EH46 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009950007086
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7059
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 176 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B7059 in the Scottish Borders, 29 March 2013
176 m awayRef 2013950001724
Slight
Car crash on the B7059 in the Scottish Borders, 14 October 2001
206 m awayRef 2001950009042
Slight
Car crash on the B7059 in the Scottish Borders, 21 January 2007
260 m awayRef 2007950000608
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B7059 in the Scottish Borders, 25 December 2014
292 m awayRef 2014950006830
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B7059 in the Scottish Borders, 24 January 2002
434 m awayRef 2002950000933
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B7059 in the Scottish Borders, 8 November 2024
613 m awayRef 2024991514080
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 29, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
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 2009950007086 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.