Serious B6461 crash in the Scottish Borders on 19 December 1990 at 10:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders at 10:30 on Wednesday 19 December 1990. The 54-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 1990
- Wednesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.73784, longitude -2.19586, in the TD11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990951558890
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6461
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 2005.
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 5 September 2005
32 m awayRef 2005950007743
Serious
Car crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 29 April 1986
200 m awayRef 198695486G026
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 4 October 2014
216 m awayRef 2014950005045
Serious
Mercedes 200 crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 19 August 2002
218 m awayRef 2002950007407
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 16 August 2009
313 m awayRef 2009950006155
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 24 October 1996
762 m awayRef 1996951088196
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 54, 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 1990951558890 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.