B6358 crash in the Scottish Borders on 25 November 2008 at 06:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders at 06:00 on Tuesday 25 November 2008. The 29-year-old male driver and a 27-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 2008
- Tuesday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.4683, longitude -2.5909, in the TD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950010204
- 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
- 6358
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 32%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 68%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2019.
Slight
Car crash on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders, 24 June 2019
11 m awayRef 2019950000768
Slight
Car crash on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders, 18 March 2007
14 m awayRef 2007950002387
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders, 28 September 2005
14 m awayRef 2005950008476
Serious
Car crash on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders, 16 April 1988
14 m awayRef 198895488G014
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders, 5 August 1987
14 m awayRef 198795887G008
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders, 19 August 2018
35 m awayRef 2018950001128
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 2008950010204 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.