B6362 crash in the Scottish Borders on 22 September 2008 at 22:30 involving a Citroen C2
A Citroen C2 crashed on the B6362 in the Scottish Borders at 22:30 on Monday 22 September 2008. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 2008
- Monday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.71124, longitude -2.78842, in the TD2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950007760
- 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
- 6362
- 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
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 76 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 September 1988.
Serious
Car crash on the B6362 in the Scottish Borders, 19 September 1988
76 m awayRef 198895988G017
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B6362 in the Scottish Borders, 26 June 2008
76 m awayRef 2008950005295
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6362 in the Scottish Borders, 26 December 1982
130 m awayRef 198295D82G036
Slight
Car crash on the B6362 in the Scottish Borders, 15 July 1983
156 m awayRef 198395783G027
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B6362 in the Scottish Borders, 18 April 2006
556 m awayRef 2006950003361
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B6362 in the Scottish Borders, 24 July 1979
758 m awayRef 197995779G054
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
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 2008950007760 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.