Serious A6112 crash in the Scottish Borders on 22 November 2014 at 05:00 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon crashed on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders at 05:00 on Saturday 22 November 2014. A 57-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 49-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Nov 2014
- Saturday, 05:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.80354, longitude -2.33989, 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
- 2014950005943
- 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
- 6112
- 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
- Raining, 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, 66 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 2015.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 6 November 2015
66 m awayRef 2015950000866
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 21 November 2005
75 m awayRef 2005950010382
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 1 December 2016
81 m awayRef 2016950005689
Slight
Car crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 6 February 1981
131 m awayRef 198195281G013
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 8 July 2008
162 m awayRef 2008950006801
Slight
HGV crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 7 April 1999
388 m awayRef 1999950347999
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- 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 2014950005943 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.