A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 8 July 2010 at 15:50 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon crashed on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 15:50 on Thursday 8 July 2010. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2010
- Thursday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.53588, longitude -2.60855, in the TD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950004899
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 March 2020.
Serious
Toyota Hilux crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 12 March 2020
8 m awayRef 2020990939324
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 15 September 2018
18 m awayRef 2018950001263
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 29 March 1984
28 m awayRef 198495384G025
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 22 December 2007
67 m awayRef 2007950000168
Serious
Honda CRV crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 5 November 2021
80 m awayRef 2021991106820
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 14 November 2003
99 m awayRef 2003950009478
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
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 2010950004899 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.