A703 crash in the Scottish Borders on 23 October 2012 at 14:32 involving a Peugeot Partner van
A Peugeot Partner van crashed on the A703 in the Scottish Borders at 14:32 on Tuesday 23 October 2012. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2012
- Tuesday, 14:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Partner
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.77312, longitude -3.2118, 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
- 2012950005936
- 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
- 703
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2006.
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 8 April 2006
81 m awayRef 2006950003074
Serious
Car crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 19 September 1983
81 m awayRef 198395983G032
Serious
Skoda Felicia crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 12 March 2010
81 m awayRef 2010950001931
Slight
Car crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 31 January 2007
98 m awayRef 2007950000922
Slight
Car crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 27 October 2000
103 m awayRef 2000950009678
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 18 July 2000
168 m awayRef 2000950006415
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
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 2012950005936 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.