A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 29 November 2012 at 17:30 involving a BMW X5
A BMW X5 crashed on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 17:30 on Thursday 29 November 2012. The 70-year-old male driver and a 61-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 2012
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW X5
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.52, longitude -2.58297, in the TD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012950006773
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 49%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 51%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 August 2002.
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 10 August 2002
10 m awayRef 2002950007067
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 16 May 1989
92 m awayRef 198995589G028
Fatal
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 31 January 1983
92 m awayRef 198395183G024
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 14 December 1991
92 m awayRef 1991951452491
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 31 March 2017
94 m awayRef 2017950001103
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 13 April 2017
103 m awayRef 2017950001189
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW X5
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
- 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 2012950006773 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.