A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 26 October 2013 at 11:55 involving a car
A car crashed on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 11:55 on Saturday 26 October 2013. The 37-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
- 26 Oct 2013
- Saturday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.5261, longitude -2.59065, 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
- 2013950005797
- 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
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a fatal crash on 13 April 2016.
Fatal
Hyundai Getz crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 13 April 2016
7 m awayRef 2016950001865
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 24 April 2008
8 m awayRef 2008950003691
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 29 March 1980
8 m awayRef 198095380G029
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 16 August 1986
8 m awayRef 198695886G020
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 30 September 2009
11 m awayRef 2009950007270
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 26 March 2004
12 m awayRef 2004950002578
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2013950005797 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.