A6088 crash in the Scottish Borders on 20 May 2016 at 15:00 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van crashed on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders at 15:00 on Friday 20 May 2016. The 54-year-old male driver 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
- 20 May 2016
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.38793, longitude -2.63073, in the TD9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016950003031
- 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
- 6088
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2007.
Slight
Car crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 18 January 2007
29 m awayRef 2007950000514
Slight
Car crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 30 November 1987
250 m awayRef 198795N87G027
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 11 July 2023
439 m awayRef 2023991329086
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 9 June 1992
440 m awayRef 1992950658392
Slight
Car crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 28 March 1999
562 m awayRef 1999950306299
Slight
Car crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 7 November 2001
676 m awayRef 2001950009921
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016950003031 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 2016.