A697 crash in the Scottish Borders on 19 December 2015 at 09:30 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander crashed on the A697 in the Scottish Borders at 09:30 on Saturday 19 December 2015. The 69-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2015
- Saturday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.72363, longitude -2.6833, in the TD2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950005801
- 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
- 697
- 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 with 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 2017.
Slight
Renault Master crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 14 August 2017
5 m awayRef 2017950001855
Serious
Lorry crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 1 July 1985
7 m awayRef 198595785G002
Slight
Car crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 1 May 1983
22 m awayRef 198395583G003
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 24 April 1981
22 m awayRef 198195481G029
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 16 December 1993
23 m awayRef 1993951400493
Fatal
Car crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 26 December 1984
31 m awayRef 198495D84G041
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
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 2015950005801 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.