B6461 crash in the Scottish Borders on 23 October 2000 at 16:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders at 16:00 on Monday 23 October 2000. A 46-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2000
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.76468, longitude -2.09591, in the TD15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950009550
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 26 June 1980
22 m awayRef 198095680G038
Slight
Car crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 24 September 1984
143 m awayRef 198495984G030
Slight
Car crash on the A706 in the Scottish Borders, 17 October 2000
411 m awayRef 2000950009536
Serious
HGV crash on a C road in Northumberland, 23 July 2000
563 m awayRef 200010A271000
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 7 August 1998
622 m awayRef 1998950768398
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B6460 in the Scottish Borders, 26 January 2024
815 m awayRef 2024991403110
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, 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 2000950009550 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.