Serious A699 crash in the Scottish Borders on 2 March 2019 at 19:30 involving a Mazda 6
A Mazda 6 crashed on the A699 in the Scottish Borders at 19:30 on Saturday 2 March 2019. The 69-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Mar 2019
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.56629, longitude -2.60132, in the TD6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019950000247
- 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
- 699
- 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
- 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, 38 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 September 2001.
Serious
Honda crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 29 September 2001
38 m awayRef 2001950008809
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 25 May 2008
58 m awayRef 2008950004540
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 4 June 2004
69 m awayRef 2004950005017
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 11 April 2015
78 m awayRef 2015950001766
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 26 August 2002
80 m awayRef 2002950007665
Serious
Honda VFR800F crash on the A699 in the Scottish Borders, 15 July 2001
97 m awayRef 2001950006272
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 6)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019950000247 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 2019.