A698 crash in the Scottish Borders on 14 October 2015 at 12:15 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a car were involved in a crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders at 12:15 on Wednesday 14 October 2015. The 20-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa 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
- 14 Oct 2015
- Wednesday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.55781, longitude -2.45993, in the TD5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950004520
- 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
- 698
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 37 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 1990.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 28 April 1990
37 m awayRef 1990950515090
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 15 June 1992
46 m awayRef 1992950679492
Serious
Volkswagen UP crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 2 April 2022
133 m awayRef 2022991162012
Fatal
Leyland crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 7 February 1991
263 m awayRef 1991950151691
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 15 August 1981
272 m awayRef 198195881G028
Slight
Car crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 29 May 1983
296 m awayRef 198395583G028
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2015950004520 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 2015.