A6112 crash in the Scottish Borders on 21 October 2009 at 07:00 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 crashed on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders at 07:00 on Wednesday 21 October 2009. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2009
- Wednesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.79839, longitude -2.34147, in the TD11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009950007959
- 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
- 6112
- 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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 197 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 July 2008.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 6 July 2008
197 m awayRef 2008950005576
Serious
Car crash on the B6365 in the Scottish Borders, 29 December 1983
252 m awayRef 198395D83G034
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 28 August 2007
260 m awayRef 2007950007488
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 17 September 2006
264 m awayRef 2006950008207
Serious
Car crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 30 March 1982
273 m awayRef 198295382G037
Slight
Car crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 26 April 1984
300 m awayRef 198495484G024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- 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
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
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 2009950007959 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.