B6461 crash in the Scottish Borders on 2 May 1997 at 17:50 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders at 17:50 on Friday 2 May 1997. A 21-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 1997
- Friday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.66733, longitude -2.37531, in the TD5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997950475997
- 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
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 February 2009.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 23 February 2009
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Slight
Hyundai Pony crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 1 February 1993
233 m awayRef 1993950133293
Serious
Car crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 24 April 2003
283 m awayRef 2003950003383
Serious
Car crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 22 June 1989
616 m awayRef 198995689G039
Serious
Car crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 12 June 1988
636 m awayRef 198895688G019
Fatal
Car crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 24 September 1987
650 m awayRef 198795987G044
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 1997950475997 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 1997.