B6456 crash in the Scottish Borders on 2 August 2008 at 10:00 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the B6456 in the Scottish Borders at 10:00 on Saturday 2 August 2008. The 49-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2008
- Saturday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.75337, longitude -2.42807, in the TD10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950006763
- 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
- 6456
- 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
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the B6456 in the Scottish Borders, 15 January 2009
73 m awayRef 2009950000841
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B6456 in the Scottish Borders, 13 June 2001
210 m awayRef 2001950005210
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6456 in the Scottish Borders, 24 May 2001
755 m awayRef 2001950004689
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B6456 in the Scottish Borders, 27 November 1995
787 m awayRef 1995951246595
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B6456 in the Scottish Borders, 30 September 2004
805 m awayRef 2004950008408
Slight
Car crash on the B6456 in the Scottish Borders, 14 September 2006
878 m awayRef 2006950008092
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- 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
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,544 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 2008950006763 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.