Serious A68 crash in the Scottish Borders on 12 September 2025 at 00:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A68 in the Scottish Borders at 00:30 on Friday 12 September 2025. The 32-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Sep 2025
- Friday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.55685, longitude -2.63695, 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
- 2025991640516
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Police Scotland
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 79 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 2010.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 12 July 2010
79 m awayRef 2010950004996
Fatal
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 25 July 1987
92 m awayRef 198795787G033
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 15 January 1994
117 m awayRef 1994950052294
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 3 December 1991
131 m awayRef 1991951396891
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 12 December 1993
139 m awayRef 1993951380193
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 4 October 1983
159 m awayRef 198395O83G005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2025991640516 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 2025.