Serious A698 crash in the Scottish Borders on 30 April 2006 at 13:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A698 in the Scottish Borders at 13:55 on Sunday 30 April 2006. The 26-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Apr 2006
- Sunday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.56484, longitude -2.45662, in the TD5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950003719
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 698
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2017.
Slight
Mini One crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 23 June 2017
29 m awayRef 2017950001597
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 16 April 2009
45 m awayRef 2009950002862
Slight
Minibus crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 8 September 2016
45 m awayRef 2016950004323
Serious
Renault Trafic crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 21 August 2020
50 m awayRef 2020990974673
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 11 September 2012
61 m awayRef 2012950005028
Serious
Renault Kangoo crash on the A698 in the Scottish Borders, 13 November 2007
73 m awayRef 2007950009483
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2006950003719 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 2006.