B6437 crash in the Scottish Borders on 12 January 2005 at 22:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders at 22:10 on Wednesday 12 January 2005. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2005
- Wednesday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.81918, longitude -2.19962, 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
- 2005950000321
- 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
- 6437
- 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 with 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 201 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 2000.
Slight
Car crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 23 October 2000
201 m awayRef 2000950009567
Slight
Citroen Relay crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 2 August 2002
247 m awayRef 2002950006801
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 29 November 1994
394 m awayRef 1994951292394
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 29 January 2005
478 m awayRef 2005950000905
Slight
Van crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 6 September 2000
555 m awayRef 2000950008088
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 20 April 1991
613 m awayRef 1991950446891
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2005950000321 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 2005.