A699 crash in the Scottish Borders on 5 November 2015 at 22:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A699 in the Scottish Borders at 22:30 on Thursday 5 November 2015. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2015
- Thursday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.55445, longitude -2.73632, in the TD6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950005036
- 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
- 699
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 February 1984.
Serious
Car crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 5 February 1984
21 m awayRef 198495284G004
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 26 January 2018
101 m awayRef 2018950000118
Slight
Lorry crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 21 September 1989
144 m awayRef 198995989G035
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 3 December 2005
208 m awayRef 2005950010877
Serious
Kawasaki ZX crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders, 22 July 2023
317 m awayRef 2023991332258
Serious
Audi crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 18 February 2013
351 m awayRef 2013950000953
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2015950005036 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.