Serious B6460 crash in the Scottish Borders on 29 June 1990 at 07:55 involving a Vauxhall Chevette
A Vauxhall Chevette and a Honda H100S motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6460 in the Scottish Borders at 07:55 on Friday 29 June 1990. The 20-year-old male rider of the Honda H100S motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jun 1990
- Friday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Chevette and Honda H100S
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.7558, longitude -2.13365, in the TD15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990950768890
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6460
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 2001.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 15 September 2001
61 m awayRef 2001950008103
Slight
Car crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 6 June 2000
122 m awayRef 2000950005113
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 9 June 2013
195 m awayRef 2013950003175
Slight
Van crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 28 May 1983
230 m awayRef 198395583G027
Slight
Car crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 28 July 1983
230 m awayRef 198395783G048
Serious
BMW X4 crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 31 March 2024
231 m awayRef 2024991429028
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Chevette
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,256 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Honda H100S
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 98 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Honda H100S)
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 1990950768890 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 1990.