Here are some pictures of a site where vehicles regularly leave the road, with varying degrees of severity.
Some drive away, as rebuilding the wall can be pricey - a hole like this would be £300 -£500, as it is drystone wall - a local skill.
Most find their cars are too badly damaged to drive, with damage to front and rear quarters.
The first picture shows the site.
This picture shows two holes on the right, made by the same car.
while this shows two other sites, which were made a few days apart.
The wall on the left has been rebuilt many times, and the farmer keeps an old gate behind the wall to effect a temporary repair.
NSL applies, and most cars are heading in the same direction - towards the direction the first picture was taken from.
It's a hollow at the bottom of a downhill section of Bannerigg. So far, nobody has hit anyone coming the other way, or on the cyclepath.
On the A6, a driver ran into a party of ramblers which resulted in several fatalities in the one incident - so I dont feel it is right to be complacent over this section of road - there are frequently large parties of walkers, or cyclists on this section. Last year there were 7 accidents here which I am aware of.
Already this year there have been 4, and behind the photographers position, and over the brow of the far hill, there have been two other accidents - the one behind was a fatal.
My own view is that the road has a kink, which takes strangers by surprise, and they stab at the brakes too hard, and spin out into the wall
The kink is to accommodate an additional lane up the hill, and spoils the natural line through the bend.
Anyone have any ideas on how to warn drivers of the consequences of taking too much speed into the bend?