B6364 crash in the Scottish Borders on 3 September 1997 at 11:25 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the B6364 in the Scottish Borders at 11:25 on Wednesday 3 September 1997. A 29-year-old female passenger in the Ford Sierra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Sep 1997
- Wednesday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 400 Series and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.6715, longitude -2.46899, in the TD5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997950916997
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6364
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 166 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 May 2001.
Serious
Honda VFR800F crash on the B6364 in the Scottish Borders, 20 May 2001
166 m awayRef 2001950004539
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the B6364 in the Scottish Borders, 7 July 2006
383 m awayRef 2006950005860
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B6364 in the Scottish Borders, 4 December 2001
416 m awayRef 2001950010956
Slight
Volvo 960 crash on the B6364 in the Scottish Borders, 24 January 1998
416 m awayRef 1998950083998
Serious
Kawasaki Z750 crash on the B6364 in the Scottish Borders, 19 August 1990
421 m awayRef 1990950985590
Slight
Car crash on the B6364 in the Scottish Borders, 16 January 2006
502 m awayRef 2006950000381
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 1997950916997 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.