A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 30 September 2009 at 14:05 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia crashed on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 14:05 on Wednesday 30 September 2009. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2009
- Wednesday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.52608, longitude -2.59082, in the TD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009950007270
- 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
- 68
- 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
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 July 2012.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 26 July 2012
10 m awayRef 2012950004093
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 26 October 2013
11 m awayRef 2013950005797
Fatal
Hyundai Getz crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 13 April 2016
13 m awayRef 2016950001865
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 26 March 2004
14 m awayRef 2004950002578
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 16 August 1986
14 m awayRef 198695886G020
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 29 March 1980
14 m awayRef 198095380G029
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- 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
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
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 2009950007270 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.