B6374 crash in the Scottish Borders on 19 May 2008 at 16:55 involving a Toyota Prius
A Toyota Prius crashed on the B6374 in the Scottish Borders at 16:55 on Monday 19 May 2008. A 40-year-old female passenger 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
- 19 May 2008
- Monday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.61113, longitude -2.76164, in the TD1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950004249
- 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
- 6374
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 1996.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6374 in the Scottish Borders, 27 November 1996
32 m awayRef 1996951245196
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A6091 in the Scottish Borders, 20 August 1990
51 m awayRef 1990950993390
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B7068 in the Scottish Borders, 2 December 1994
91 m awayRef 1994951309094
Slight
Optare Versa crash on the B6374 in the Scottish Borders, 25 June 2018
117 m awayRef 2018950000823
Fatal
Peugeot 307 crash on the B6374 in the Scottish Borders, 10 December 2007
117 m awayRef 2007950010284
Slight
Car crash on the B6374 in the Scottish Borders, 11 August 1989
143 m awayRef 198995889G026
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Prius)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2008950004249 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.