Unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders TD5 on 30 March 2000 at 09:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 09:15 on Thursday 30 March 2000. The 60-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and a 58-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2000
- Thursday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.53405, longitude -2.44834, in the TD5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950002955
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the B6401 in the Scottish Borders, 31 October 2005
30 m awayRef 2005950009620
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6401 in the Scottish Borders, 12 August 1989
50 m awayRef 198995889G011
Slight
Mitsubishi Galant crash on the B6401 in the Scottish Borders, 1 July 2003
60 m awayRef 2003950005384
Slight
Mitsubishi L200 crash on the B6401 in the Scottish Borders, 13 June 2005
104 m awayRef 2005950005051
Fatal
Peugeot 405 crash on the B6401 in the Scottish Borders, 14 August 1999
130 m awayRef 1999950007493
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B6401 in the Scottish Borders, 4 June 2008
236 m awayRef 2008950005133
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2000950002955 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.