Serious A707 crash in the Scottish Borders on 19 April 2013 at 19:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A707 in the Scottish Borders at 19:00 on Friday 19 April 2013. The 60-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Apr 2013
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.54814, longitude -2.86153, in the TD7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013950002059
- 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
- 707
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2008.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A708 in the Scottish Borders, 10 November 2008
4 m awayRef 2008950010311
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A708 in the Scottish Borders, 23 August 1998
262 m awayRef 1998950823598
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 26 May 2014
278 m awayRef 2014950002891
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 13 August 2004
280 m awayRef 2004950006834
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A707 in the Scottish Borders, 13 March 2023
285 m awayRef 2023991286490
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 10 April 2021
291 m awayRef 2021991038840
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,290 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 60, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2013950002059 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 2013.