Unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders TD1 on 8 December 2009 at 09:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 09:00 on Tuesday 8 December 2009. The 42-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2009
- Tuesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.58834, longitude -2.81197, in the TD1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009950010092
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 March 1981.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the Scottish Borders, 8 March 1981
73 m awayRef 198195381G008
Serious
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 12 January 1985
210 m awayRef 198595185G010
Slight
Iveco crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 29 June 2018
227 m awayRef 2018950000878
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 9 March 1996
228 m awayRef 1996950257396
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 2 March 2001
282 m awayRef 2001950002098
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 2 February 1987
306 m awayRef 198795287G003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
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 and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2009950010092 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.