B6397 crash in the Scottish Borders on 2 June 2000 at 23:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders at 23:00 on Friday 2 June 2000. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jun 2000
- Friday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60951, longitude -2.52207, in the TD5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950005203
- 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
- 6397
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 2005.
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 2 January 2005
10 m awayRef 2005950000067
Slight
Mitsubishi L200 crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 11 March 2011
14 m awayRef 2011950001782
Slight
Car crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 16 April 2000
20 m awayRef 2000950003515
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 10 February 2005
76 m awayRef 2005950001449
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 4 July 1989
95 m awayRef 198995789G005
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 28 May 1997
175 m awayRef 1997950544397
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2000950005203 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.