Serious A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 7 June 2010 at 15:30 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 15:30 on Monday 7 June 2010. The 79-year-old female 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
- 7 Jun 2010
- Monday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.28817, longitude -2.94235, in the TD9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950004086
- 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
- 7
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 December 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 25 December 2006
10 m awayRef 2006950011797
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 15 April 2007
10 m awayRef 2007950003246
Serious
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 23 May 2009
20 m awayRef 2009950003887
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 5 June 2011
22 m awayRef 2011950003737
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 27 March 2007
22 m awayRef 2007950002716
Slight
Volvo crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 25 January 2012
50 m awayRef 2012950000524
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2010950004086 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 2010.