A702 crash in the Scottish Borders on 17 December 2010 at 10:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A702 in the Scottish Borders at 10:10 on Friday 17 December 2010. The 22-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2010
- Friday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.73869, longitude -3.37511, in the EH46 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950009426
- 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
- 702
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A702 in the Scottish Borders, 24 June 1996
51 m awayRef 1996950630196
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A702 in the Scottish Borders, 14 January 1999
63 m awayRef 1999950043799
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 45LF crash on the A702 in the Scottish Borders, 21 June 2013
126 m awayRef 2013950003357
Serious
Car crash on the A702 in the Scottish Borders, 20 July 1979
130 m awayRef 197995779G032
Serious
Car crash on the A702 in the Scottish Borders, 5 January 1987
173 m awayRef 198795187G009
Serious
Car crash on the A702 in the Scottish Borders, 17 March 1979
241 m awayRef 197995379G028
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2010950009426 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.