A703 crash in the Scottish Borders on 18 August 2018 at 12:55 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A703 in the Scottish Borders at 12:55 on Saturday 18 August 2018. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2018
- Saturday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.77678, longitude -3.21832, in the EH46 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018950001119
- 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
- 703
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 February 2017.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 5 February 2017
5 m awayRef 2017950000405
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, 27 October 1981
20 m awayRef 198195O81G043
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 14 August 2015
22 m awayRef 2015950003807
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 1 October 2022
31 m awayRef 2022991225518
Serious
Ford C-Max crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 20 May 2017
35 m awayRef 2017950001372
Serious
Mercedes AMG Class crash on the A703 in the Scottish Borders, 28 December 2021
38 m awayRef 2021991126715
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018950001119 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.