A703 crash in the Scottish Borders on 19 August 2010 at 14:15 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the A703 in the Scottish Borders at 14:15 on Thursday 19 August 2010. The 74-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 2010
- Thursday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.67294, longitude -3.2017, in the EH45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950006140
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 703
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2003.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 28 August 2003
14 m awayRef 2003950007091
Serious
Mazda 3 crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 10 July 2011
20 m awayRef 2011950004572
Slight
Car crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 9 August 1980
22 m awayRef 198095880G034
Serious
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 16 January 2010
30 m awayRef 2010950000614
Slight
Fiat Bravo crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 22 January 2013
46 m awayRef 2013950000390
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 9 February 2003
50 m awayRef 2003950001296
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 2010950006140 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.