A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 10 August 2010 at 09:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 09:00 on Tuesday 10 August 2010. The 16-year-old male rider 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
- 10 Aug 2010
- Tuesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.71229, longitude -2.73464, 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
- 2010950005704
- 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
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 9 December 2013
32 m awayRef 2013950006755
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 21 December 2004
67 m awayRef 2004950011385
Serious
Audi A5 crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 18 October 2019
68 m awayRef 2019950889478
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 1 May 2006
76 m awayRef 2006950003740
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 6 August 2009
214 m awayRef 2009950006209
Serious
Van crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 7 April 1982
225 m awayRef 198295482G005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2010950005704 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.