B6352 crash in the Scottish Borders on 19 October 2005 at 23:15 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon crashed on the B6352 in the Scottish Borders at 23:15 on Wednesday 19 October 2005. The 19-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
- 19 Oct 2005
- Wednesday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.57018, longitude -2.36407, 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
- 2005950009175
- 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
- 6352
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 112 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 July 2007.
Serious
Ford KA crash on the B6352 in the Scottish Borders, 11 July 2007
112 m awayRef 2007950005920
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on the B6352 in the Scottish Borders, 6 December 2005
153 m awayRef 2005950010919
Serious
Car crash on the B6352 in the Scottish Borders, 15 November 1988
301 m awayRef 198895N88G017
Slight
Car crash on the B6352 in the Scottish Borders, 9 October 1981
446 m awayRef 198195O81G009
Slight
Car crash on the B6352 in the Scottish Borders, 30 August 1983
488 m awayRef 198395883G046
Slight
Car crash on the B6352 in the Scottish Borders, 26 December 1983
798 m awayRef 198395D83G025
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
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 2005950009175 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.