A7 crash in the Scottish Borders on 10 September 2013 at 15:30 involving a MAN lorry
A MAN lorry crashed on the A7 in the Scottish Borders at 15:30 on Tuesday 10 September 2013. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Sep 2013
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- MAN
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.36312, longitude -2.89114, in the TD9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013950004745
- 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
- 7
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 March 2025.
Serious
Yamaha YZF crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 9 March 2025
22 m awayRef 2025991563027
Slight
Van crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 7 September 1981
22 m awayRef 198195981G044
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 18 June 2008
22 m awayRef 2008950005116
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 13 July 2007
22 m awayRef 2007950006118
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 15 September 2008
92 m awayRef 2008950007625
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 10 April 1996
141 m awayRef 1996950363696
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MAN
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,419 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (MAN)
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 2013950004745 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.