B6437 crash in the Scottish Borders on 15 April 2007 at 13:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders at 13:00 on Sunday 15 April 2007. The 49-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 2007
- Sunday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.83593, longitude -2.23259, in the TD14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950003237
- 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
- 6437
- 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
- 39%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 61%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 2006.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 15 April 2006
At the same spotRef 2006950003284
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 26 October 1983
427 m awayRef 198395O83G038
Slight
Van crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 12 May 2010
439 m awayRef 2010950003429
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 14 March 1993
524 m awayRef 1993950285893
Slight
Peugeot RCZ crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 4 October 2011
743 m awayRef 2011950006346
Slight
Leyland DAF FT 95 crash on the B6438 in the Scottish Borders, 30 August 2001
814 m awayRef 2001950007629
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, 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 2007950003237 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 2007.