B6396 crash in the Scottish Borders on 23 October 2006 at 15:00 involving a Yamaha YN 50 Neos motorcycle
A Yamaha YN 50 Neos motorcycle crashed on the B6396 in the Scottish Borders at 15:00 on Monday 23 October 2006. The 16-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2006
- Monday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha YN 50 Neos
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.58441, longitude -2.38356, 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
- 2006950009420
- 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
- 6396
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 34%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 66%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 74 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 March 2020.
Serious
Toyota Proace crash on the B6396 in the Scottish Borders, 5 March 2020
74 m awayRef 2020990937076
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 26 July 1998
216 m awayRef 1998950713898
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the B6396 in the Scottish Borders, 17 June 2009
408 m awayRef 2009950004673
Slight
Car crash on the B6396 in the Scottish Borders, 11 August 2016
653 m awayRef 2016950003847
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B6396 in the Scottish Borders, 11 August 2009
685 m awayRef 2009950006100
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6350 in the Scottish Borders, 16 January 2007
784 m awayRef 2007950000433
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YN 50 Neos
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YN 50 Neos)
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 2006950009420 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.