A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 22 August 2010 at 20:55 involving a Peugeot 406
A Peugeot 406 crashed on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 20:55 on Sunday 22 August 2010. The 37-year-old male driver, a 46-year-old female passenger and a 15-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2010
- Sunday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 406
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.65687, longitude -2.86902, in the TD1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950006335
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 57%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 43%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 3 December 2010
22 m awayRef 2010950008937
Fatal
Toyota Yaris crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 2 July 2007
70 m awayRef 2007950005647
Fatal
Van crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 10 June 1987
82 m awayRef 198795687G018
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 14 January 2005
112 m awayRef 2005950000376
Slight
Car crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 13 July 2009
117 m awayRef 2009950005665
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 15 January 2005
143 m awayRef 2005950000438
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2010950006335 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.