A701 crash in the Scottish Borders on 5 August 2014 at 17:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A701 in the Scottish Borders at 17:30 on Tuesday 5 August 2014. The 52-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2014
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.61106, longitude -3.41041, 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
- 2014950004303
- 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
- 701
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 83 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2002.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 16 July 2002
83 m awayRef 2002950006249
Serious
Car crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 28 June 1987
85 m awayRef 198795687G041
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 1 December 2013
94 m awayRef 2013950007014
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 30 August 1980
103 m awayRef 198095880G052
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 16 December 1995
178 m awayRef 1995951338095
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 11 June 2002
204 m awayRef 2002950005193
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2014950004303 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.