Unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders TD7 on 23 May 2014 at 12:11 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Suzuki Swift were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 12:11 on Friday 23 May 2014. The 66-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Swift was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 2014
- Friday, 12:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.56041, longitude -2.83166, in the TD7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Selkirk.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950003045
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 7
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2018.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 10 May 2018
4 m awayRef 2018950000610
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 21 April 2003
4 m awayRef 2003950003282
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 21 September 2010
6 m awayRef 2010950006881
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 13 September 2010
6 m awayRef 2010950006878
Slight
Seat Inca crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 26 June 2006
6 m awayRef 2006950005511
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 29 January 2007
6 m awayRef 2007950000883
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Swift)
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 2014950003045 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 2014.