B6461 crash in the Scottish Borders on 18 January 2000 at 00:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders at 00:30 on Tuesday 18 January 2000. The 20-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 2000
- Tuesday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60924, longitude -2.42745, in the TD5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kelso.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950000500
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6461
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 80 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 August 2013.
Serious
Ford Streetka crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 4 August 2013
80 m awayRef 2013950003667
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 18 July 2018
88 m awayRef 2018950000960
Serious
Van crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 26 November 1986
89 m awayRef 198695N86G040
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 26 May 2001
90 m awayRef 2001950004600
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 16 January 1995
98 m awayRef 1995950048795
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 4 September 2007
136 m awayRef 2007950007580
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2000950000500 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 2000.