A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 19 November 2018 at 17:50 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 crashed on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 17:50 on Monday 19 November 2018. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2018
- Monday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.36386, longitude -2.494, in the TD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018950001606
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2016.
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 20 September 2016
8 m awayRef 2016950004483
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 5 August 1982
8 m awayRef 198295882G012
Serious
Harley-Davidson crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 3 September 2021
9 m awayRef 2021991083853
Slight
Van crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 14 July 1989
14 m awayRef 198995789G021
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 10 August 1985
14 m awayRef 198595885G013
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 8 August 2010
14 m awayRef 2010950005782
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018950001606 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.