Serious B6360 crash in the Scottish Borders on 28 June 1998 at 03:45 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the B6360 in the Scottish Borders at 03:45 on Sunday 28 June 1998. The 40-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jun 1998
- Sunday, 03:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.59194, longitude -2.79125, in the TD1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998950624198
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6360
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 September 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6360 in the Scottish Borders, 18 September 1991
20 m awayRef 1991951044991
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B6360 in the Scottish Borders, 15 December 2018
28 m awayRef 2018950001709
Serious
Car crash on the B6360 in the Scottish Borders, 14 November 1989
28 m awayRef 198995N89G022
Serious
Car crash on the B6360 in the Scottish Borders, 12 September 1989
41 m awayRef 198995989G058
Serious
Car crash on the B6360 in the Scottish Borders, 23 September 1979
50 m awayRef 197995979G040
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 8 January 2011
51 m awayRef 2011950000169
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,093 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 1998950624198 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 1998.