Serious A6105 crash in the Scottish Borders on 9 November 2013 at 18:05 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders at 18:05 on Saturday 9 November 2013. The 24-year-old male driver and a 33-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Nov 2013
- Saturday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.75663, longitude -2.39869, in the TD11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013950006106
- 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
- 6105
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 43 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 2013.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 10 April 2013
43 m awayRef 2013950001925
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 23 August 2012
145 m awayRef 2012950004626
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 22 April 2014
176 m awayRef 2014950002195
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 24 October 2009
176 m awayRef 2009950008119
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 28 August 2010
215 m awayRef 2010950006215
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A6105 in the Scottish Borders, 28 June 2013
216 m awayRef 2013950003302
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
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
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2013950006106 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.