B6437 crash in the Scottish Borders on 29 January 2005 at 18:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders at 18:45 on Saturday 29 January 2005. The 43-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
- 29 Jan 2005
- Saturday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.81514, longitude -2.19704, 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
- 2005950000905
- 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, 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 279 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 2000.
Slight
Car crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 23 October 2000
279 m awayRef 2000950009567
Slight
Car crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 12 January 2005
478 m awayRef 2005950000321
Slight
Citroen Relay crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 2 August 2002
721 m awayRef 2002950006801
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 29 November 1994
869 m awayRef 1994951292394
Slight
Van crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 6 September 2000
1.0 km awayRef 2000950008088
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 10 September 1983
1.0 km awayRef 198395983G017
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- 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
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2005950000905 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.