B6437 crash in the Scottish Borders on 6 September 2000 at 12:45 involving a van
A van crashed on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders at 12:45 on Wednesday 6 September 2000. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 2000
- Wednesday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82358, longitude -2.20379, in the TD11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950008088
- 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
- 6437
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 1991.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 20 April 1991
58 m awayRef 1991950446891
Slight
Car crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 12 October 1989
67 m awayRef 198995O89G013
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 3 October 1992
72 m awayRef 1992951145892
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 9 December 2024
74 m awayRef 2024991528990
Slight
Land Rover 110 crash on the B6347 in the Scottish Borders, 14 September 1991
85 m awayRef 1991951030191
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B6347 in the Scottish Borders, 14 September 1993
86 m awayRef 1993951002693
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 2000950008088 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.