B6400 crash in the Scottish Borders on 7 July 2003 at 19:05 involving a Mitsubishi Shogun
A bicycle and a Mitsubishi Shogun were involved in a crash on the B6400 in the Scottish Borders at 19:05 on Monday 7 July 2003. The 13-year-old female cyclist and a 12-year-old female passenger on the bicycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 2003
- Monday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mitsubishi Shogun
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.51375, longitude -2.59428, in the TD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950005564
- 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
- 6400
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 2015.
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the B6400 in the Scottish Borders, 15 September 2015
31 m awayRef 2015950004226
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 27 August 1995
242 m awayRef 1995950889495
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 13 February 1989
293 m awayRef 198995289G013
Slight
Aeon Aero crash on the B6400 in the Scottish Borders, 30 July 1991
311 m awayRef 1991950846291
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 31 May 1982
324 m awayRef 198295582G043
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6400 in the Scottish Borders, 6 February 2012
340 m awayRef 2012950000817
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Shogun
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 13, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, cyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 2003950005564 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.