Serious A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 31 August 2010 at 16:45 involving a Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle crashed on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 16:45 on Tuesday 31 August 2010. The 27-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Aug 2010
- Tuesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSXR 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59009, longitude -2.80519, in the TD1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950006318
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2014.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 17 April 2014
12 m awayRef 2014950002225
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 12 November 2013
12 m awayRef 2013950006174
Slight
Lada Niva crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 27 January 1995
22 m awayRef 1995950092895
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 7 December 2015
33 m awayRef 2015950005591
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 25 August 2013
34 m awayRef 2013950004395
Slight
Van crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 21 December 1988
36 m awayRef 198895D88G040
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 600
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 600)
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 2010950006318 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.