B6355 crash in the Scottish Borders on 2 January 2008 at 19:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders at 19:10 on Wednesday 2 January 2008. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jan 2008
- Wednesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85551, longitude -2.10204, 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
- 2008950000163
- 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
- 6355
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2004.
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 13 January 2004
72 m awayRef 2004950000331
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 4 August 1990
72 m awayRef 1990950918290
Slight
Car crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 1 April 1981
76 m awayRef 198195481G004
Serious
Car crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 17 November 1986
81 m awayRef 198695N86G027
Slight
Bus crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 4 February 1987
104 m awayRef 198795287G005
Slight
Car crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 28 August 1993
112 m awayRef 1993950923993
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2008950000163 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 2008.