B712 crash in the Scottish Borders on 29 July 2013 at 07:30 involving a Mazda 6
A Mazda 6 crashed on the B712 in the Scottish Borders at 07:30 on Monday 29 July 2013. The 31-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
- 29 Jul 2013
- Monday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.62771, longitude -3.29453, in the EH45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013950004097
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 712
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 47 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 October 2021.
Serious
Car crash on the B712 in the Scottish Borders, 30 October 2021
47 m awayRef 2021991104360
Serious
Car crash on the A72 in the Scottish Borders, 30 October 2015
291 m awayRef 2015950005005
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B712 in the Scottish Borders, 5 September 2003
628 m awayRef 2003950007295
Serious
Car crash on the B712 in the Scottish Borders, 15 September 2008
634 m awayRef 2008950007627
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on the B712 in the Scottish Borders, 2 June 2001
666 m awayRef 2001950004867
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B712 in the Scottish Borders, 15 November 2004
786 m awayRef 2004950010020
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 6)
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 2013950004097 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.