A6105 crash in the Scottish Borders on 24 October 2009 at 17:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders at 17:00 on Saturday 24 October 2009. The 55-year-old male driver and a 53-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2009
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.75589, longitude -2.40117, in the TD10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009950008119
- 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
- 6105
- 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
- Fine, 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
- 36%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 64%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 April 2014.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 22 April 2014
8 m awayRef 2014950002195
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 23 August 2012
32 m awayRef 2012950004626
Serious
Renault Laguna crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 16 December 2002
42 m awayRef 2002950011596
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 28 June 2013
43 m awayRef 2013950003302
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 6 August 1994
78 m awayRef 1994950835294
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 10 April 2013
133 m awayRef 2013950001925
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- 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
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2009950008119 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.