A6088 crash in the Scottish Borders on 10 March 2011 at 09:50 involving a Rover 25
A Rover 25 and a Saab 900 were involved in a crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders at 09:50 on Thursday 10 March 2011. An 80-year-old female passenger in the Saab 900 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2011
- Thursday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 25 and Saab 900
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.41087, longitude -2.71056, in the TD9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011950001745
- 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
- 6088
- 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 with 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 8 May 1982
10 m awayRef 198295582G010
Slight
Car crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 17 August 1991
10 m awayRef 1991950923291
Serious
Honda crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 30 March 1997
45 m awayRef 1997950347497
Serious
Car crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 17 July 1980
51 m awayRef 198095780G020
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 12 July 2023
139 m awayRef 2023991329201
Slight
BMW R 1150 R crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 13 June 2004
161 m awayRef 2004950004971
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Saab 900
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Saab 900)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2011950001745 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 2011.