B6350 crash in the Scottish Borders on 24 June 2005 at 22:45 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the B6350 in the Scottish Borders at 22:45 on Friday 24 June 2005. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jun 2005
- Friday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.62203, longitude -2.36233, 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
- 2005950005468
- 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
- 6350
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 2005.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B6350 in the Scottish Borders, 13 June 2005
At the same spotRef 2005950005052
Serious
Proton Persona crash on the B6350 in the Scottish Borders, 6 October 1996
At the same spotRef 1996951013396
Fatal
Suzuki Ignis crash on the B6350 in the Scottish Borders, 17 June 2016
2 m awayRef 2016950003014
Slight
Lada Riva crash on the B6350 in the Scottish Borders, 3 December 1991
10 m awayRef 1991951399691
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6350 in the Scottish Borders, 23 October 2005
28 m awayRef 2005950009339
Fatal
Renault 21 crash on the B6350 in the Scottish Borders, 4 April 1997
41 m awayRef 1997950363797
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 2005950005468 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.