A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 10 April 2012 at 18:35 involving a Porsche Boxster
A Porsche Boxster crashed on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 18:35 on Tuesday 10 April 2012. The 48-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Apr 2012
- Tuesday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Porsche Boxster
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.81751, longitude -2.8469, in the EH37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012950002050
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 August 1998.
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 22 August 1998
42 m awayRef 1998950818898
Slight
Ford Ranger crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 22 December 2010
85 m awayRef 2010950009582
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 22 June 2016
87 m awayRef 2016950003234
Slight
Lorry crash on the A68 in Midlothian, 30 November 1981
143 m awayRef 198195N81G040
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in Midlothian, 14 March 1980
161 m awayRef 198095380E027
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in Midlothian, 4 April 1981
175 m awayRef 198195481E006
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Porsche Boxster
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche Boxster)
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 2012950002050 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 2012.