B6352 crash in the Scottish Borders on 24 September 2008 at 18:30 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the B6352 in the Scottish Borders at 18:30 on Wednesday 24 September 2008. The 40-year-old male rider 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
- 24 Sep 2008
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.576, longitude -2.40029, in the TD5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950007948
- 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
- 6352
- 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
- 40%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 60%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 85 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 1993.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 15 August 1993
85 m awayRef 1993950870693
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the B6352 in the Scottish Borders, 18 February 1991
178 m awayRef 1991950199391
Serious
Car crash on the A6396 in the Scottish Borders, 26 September 1982
394 m awayRef 198295982G042
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6352 in the Scottish Borders, 15 March 2001
460 m awayRef 2001950002674
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B6396 in the Scottish Borders, 9 June 2001
460 m awayRef 2001950005176
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6352 in the Scottish Borders, 19 June 2001
460 m awayRef 2001950005432
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
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 and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 40, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 2008950007948 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.