B709 crash in the Scottish Borders on 6 December 2000 at 20:30 involving a car
A vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on the B709 in the Scottish Borders at 20:30 on Wednesday 6 December 2000. The 33-year-old male driver of the car 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
- 6 Dec 2000
- Wednesday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vehicle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950011313
- 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
- 709
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1
Vehicle type not recorded
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
Vehicle 2: Car
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2000950011313 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.