B712 crash in the Scottish Borders on 19 September 2013 at 19:45 involving a Kia Rio
A Kia Rio crashed on the B712 in the Scottish Borders at 19:45 on Thursday 19 September 2013. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 2013
- Thursday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Rio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59499, longitude -3.40464, in the ML12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013950005111
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2011.
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the B712 in the Scottish Borders, 10 June 2011
40 m awayRef 2011950003894
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 20 March 2011
93 m awayRef 2011950001956
Slight
Hyundai Stellar crash on the B712 in the Scottish Borders, 15 June 1998
98 m awayRef 1998950579498
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 24 June 1989
102 m awayRef 198995689G042
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 15 October 2001
108 m awayRef 2001950009070
Serious
Car crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 2 January 1985
239 m awayRef 198595185G001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,343 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Rio)
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 2013950005111 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.