A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 2 July 2010 at 18:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 18:30 on Friday 2 July 2010. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 2010
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.73735, longitude -2.76665, in the TD2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950004733
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2004.
Slight
Van crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 16 December 2004
10 m awayRef 2004950011140
Slight
Hyundai 1200 crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 24 December 1991
10 m awayRef 1991951520391
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 18 May 1981
14 m awayRef 198195581G011
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 18 October 1983
20 m awayRef 198395O83G025
Slight
Van crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 17 November 1980
32 m awayRef 198095N80G021
Slight
Volkswagen Crafter crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 5 December 2013
42 m awayRef 2013950006667
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2010950004733 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.