B6355 crash in the Scottish Borders on 23 July 1997 at 19:15 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova crashed on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders at 19:15 on Wednesday 23 July 1997. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 1997
- Wednesday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82688, longitude -2.12943, in the TD14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997950751797
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 2014.
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Renault Clio crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 4 July 2007
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
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 1997950751797 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.