B6399 crash in the Scottish Borders on 8 August 2004 at 14:50 involving a Honda CBR600F motorcycle
A Honda CBR600F motorcycle and a Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6399 in the Scottish Borders at 14:50 on Sunday 8 August 2004. The 47-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 2004
- Sunday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBR600F and Honda CBR1100XX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.33708, longitude -2.74329, in the TD9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004950006650
- 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
- 6399
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 40%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 60%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 October 2016.
Serious
Land Rover crash on the B6399 in the Scottish Borders, 15 October 2016
23 m awayRef 2016950004820
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B6399 in the Scottish Borders, 24 May 2015
50 m awayRef 2015950002445
Serious
Suzuki GSXR crash on the B6399 in the Scottish Borders, 13 July 2025
69 m awayRef 2025991615466
Slight
Van crash on the B6399 in the Scottish Borders, 12 July 1980
228 m awayRef 198095780G015
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B6399 in the Scottish Borders, 17 April 1994
508 m awayRef 1994950433794
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6399 in the Scottish Borders, 23 September 2019
654 m awayRef 2019950880763
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR600F
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR1100XX
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,137 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR1100XX)
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 2004950006650 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.