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B6470 crash in the Scottish Borders on 23 October 2000 at 19:00 involving a car

A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B6470 in the Scottish Borders at 19:00 on Monday 23 October 2000. The 39-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
23 Oct 2000
Monday, 19:00
Vehicles
2
Car and bicycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.71583, longitude -2.21103, 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
2000950009957
Council area
Scottish Borders
Police force
Lothian and Borders
Police attended the scene
No

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
6470
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Stop sign
Second road class
B
Second road number
6437

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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 1995.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    67 years

  • Vehicle 2: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    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
    39 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 39, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)

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 2000950009957 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.