B6437 crash in the Scottish Borders on 27 August 1986 at 09:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders at 09:10 on Wednesday 27 August 1986. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Aug 1986
- Wednesday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.75066, longitude -2.2109, in the TD11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198695886G044
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6437
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 283 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 October 2012.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 29 October 2012
283 m awayRef 2012950006037
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 13 July 2002
501 m awayRef 2002950006233
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 2 June 2008
602 m awayRef 2008950005018
Slight
Car crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 27 September 2000
623 m awayRef 2000950008680
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 16 December 1991
624 m awayRef 1991951461491
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 6 July 2006
968 m awayRef 2006950005843
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198695886G044 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 1986.