A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 1 October 2010 at 22:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 22:00 on Friday 1 October 2010. The 56-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2010
- Friday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.5953, longitude -2.67104, in the TD6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950007232
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6091
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 26%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 74%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 2014.
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 31 August 2014
45 m awayRef 2014950004677
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 20 June 2005
50 m awayRef 2005950005293
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 10 March 2007
61 m awayRef 2007950002123
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 1 January 1999
63 m awayRef 1999950007599
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 9 October 2006
73 m awayRef 2006950008926
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 7 September 2010
80 m awayRef 2010950006657
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2010950007232 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.