B6358 crash in the Scottish Borders on 13 December 2004 at 07:00 involving a Volkswagen Vento
A Volkswagen Vento crashed on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders at 07:00 on Monday 13 December 2004. The 26-year-old male driver 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
- 13 Dec 2004
- Monday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Vento
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.46958, longitude -2.62177, 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
- 2004950011010
- 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
- 6358
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 2002.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders, 23 October 2002
At the same spotRef 2002950009551
Slight
Car crash on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders, 15 August 1989
10 m awayRef 198995889G018
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders, 23 May 2003
14 m awayRef 2003950004275
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders, 18 June 2004
20 m awayRef 2004950005265
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders, 15 June 2001
121 m awayRef 2001950005289
Slight
Daewoo Musso crash on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders, 19 August 2004
160 m awayRef 2004950007023
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Vento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Vento)
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 2004950011010 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.