B6401 crash in the Scottish Borders on 13 June 2005 at 07:30 involving a Mitsubishi L200 van
A Mitsubishi L200 van crashed on the B6401 in the Scottish Borders at 07:30 on Monday 13 June 2005. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jun 2005
- Monday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi L200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.53379, longitude -2.44676, in the TD5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950005051
- 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
- 6401
- 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, 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a fatal crash on 14 August 1999.
Fatal
Peugeot 405 crash on the B6401 in the Scottish Borders, 14 August 1999
41 m awayRef 1999950007493
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 30 March 2000
104 m awayRef 2000950002955
Slight
Car crash on the B6401 in the Scottish Borders, 31 October 2005
133 m awayRef 2005950009620
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6401 in the Scottish Borders, 12 August 1989
153 m awayRef 198995889G011
Slight
Mitsubishi Galant crash on the B6401 in the Scottish Borders, 1 July 2003
163 m awayRef 2003950005384
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B6401 in the Scottish Borders, 4 June 2008
336 m awayRef 2008950005133
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi L200
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi L200)
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 2005950005051 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.