B6438 crash in the Scottish Borders on 30 March 2003 at 17:00 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on the B6438 in the Scottish Borders at 17:00 on Sunday 30 March 2003. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2003
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82404, longitude -2.32254, in the TD11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950002756
- 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
- 6438
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 2009.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B7059 in the Scottish Borders, 30 April 2009
57 m awayRef 2009950003072
Serious
Car crash on the B6438 in the Scottish Borders, 5 February 1987
71 m awayRef 198795287G006
Slight
Mercedes Cla Class crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 12 June 2022
140 m awayRef 2022991187585
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 24 October 1998
191 m awayRef 1998951049298
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B6438 in the Scottish Borders, 30 April 2009
191 m awayRef 2009950003071
Slight
Car crash on the A6112 in the Scottish Borders, 6 March 1986
272 m awayRef 198695386G005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 2003950002756 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 2003.