Unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders TD7 on 31 March 2008 at 17:00 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 17:00 on Monday 31 March 2008. The 32-year-old male rider 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
- 31 Mar 2008
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.51006, longitude -3.13102, in the TD7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950003487
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 39%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 61%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 192 metres away, was a fatal crash on 15 May 2008.
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A708 in the Scottish Borders, 15 May 2008
192 m awayRef 2008950004162
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 26 July 2018
205 m awayRef 2018950000986
Serious
Honda crash on the A708 in the Scottish Borders, 15 June 2008
206 m awayRef 2008950004982
Serious
Car crash on the A708 in the Scottish Borders, 19 April 1983
314 m awayRef 198395483G021
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A708 in the Scottish Borders, 8 March 1981
314 m awayRef 198195381G017
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A708 in the Scottish Borders, 6 June 2021
342 m awayRef 2021991053075
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
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
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 2008950003487 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.