B6355 crash in the Scottish Borders on 13 June 1996 at 12:30 involving a Fiat Tempra
A Fiat Tempra crashed on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders at 12:30 on Thursday 13 June 1996. A 17-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jun 1996
- Thursday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Tempra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8302, longitude -2.12656, in the TD14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996950593596
- 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
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 1994.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 8 November 1994
14 m awayRef 1994951200094
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 10 August 1992
14 m awayRef 1992950903992
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 20 September 2003
22 m awayRef 2003950007708
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 18 June 1983
32 m awayRef 198395683G018
Slight
Van crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 22 January 1991
40 m awayRef 1991950088091
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 13 February 2009
51 m awayRef 2009950001279
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Tempra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Tempra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1996950593596 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 1996.