B6355 crash in the Scottish Borders on 20 March 1993 at 23:15 involving a Morris Marina
A Morris Marina crashed on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders at 23:15 on Saturday 20 March 1993. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 1993
- Saturday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Morris Marina
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8254, longitude -2.42551, 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
- 1993950312993
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6355
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 409 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 May 2014.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 11 May 2014
409 m awayRef 2014950002561
Slight
Car crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 18 December 2000
808 m awayRef 2000950011751
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 13 May 2007
996 m awayRef 2007950004328
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 23 February 1981
1.1 km awayRef 198195281G023
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 20 July 2007
1.4 km awayRef 2007950006223
Slight
Car crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 29 January 2000
1.9 km awayRef 2000950000993
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Morris Marina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Morris Marina)
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 1993950312993 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 1993.