B6362 crash in the Scottish Borders on 8 August 2004 at 01:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the B6362 in the Scottish Borders at 01:00 on Sunday 8 August 2004. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 2004
- Sunday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.69476, longitude -2.86111, in the TD1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004950006645
- 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
- 6362
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 99 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 7 September 1993
99 m awayRef 1993950963093
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B6362 in the Scottish Borders, 8 August 1981
104 m awayRef 198195881G009
Slight
Mazda RX8 crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 19 August 2014
113 m awayRef 2014950004752
Serious
Suzuki Liana crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 20 April 2013
119 m awayRef 2013950002116
Slight
Austin Ambassador crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 17 March 1990
127 m awayRef 1990950356290
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A7 in the Scottish Borders, 5 May 2002
161 m awayRef 2002950004144
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 2004950006645 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 2004.