Serious A6112 crash in the Scottish Borders on 1 December 2016 at 12:30 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders at 12:30 on Thursday 1 December 2016. The 28-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8039, longitude -2.34103, 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
- 2016950005689
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6112
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, 16 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
16 m awayRef 2015950000866
Slight
Car crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 6 February 1981
49 m awayRef 198195281G013
Serious
Seat Leon crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 22 November 2014
81 m awayRef 2014950005943
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 8 July 2008
84 m awayRef 2008950006801
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 21 November 2005
144 m awayRef 2005950010382
Slight
HGV crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 7 April 1999
349 m awayRef 1999950347999
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2016950005689 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.