A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 10 August 2018 at 14:20 involving a Volkswagen Sharan
A Volkswagen Sharan, a Volkswagen Passat and a car were involved in a crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 14:20 on Friday 10 August 2018. A 64-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2018
- Friday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Sharan and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59268, longitude -2.67035, 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
- 2018950001079
- 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
- 68
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 2015.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 29 May 2015
4 m awayRef 2015950002629
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 21 October 2008
12 m awayRef 2008950008917
Slight
Mitsubishi L200 crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 23 September 2018
19 m awayRef 2018950001292
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 10 July 2012
21 m awayRef 2012950003810
Slight
Fiat Stilo crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 11 June 2010
25 m awayRef 2010950004175
Slight
Toyota Tercel crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 20 July 1996
28 m awayRef 1996950720296
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Sharan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018950001079 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 2018.