B6404 crash in the Scottish Borders on 28 May 2010 at 03:00 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series crashed on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders at 03:00 on Friday 28 May 2010. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 2010
- Friday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.6021, longitude -2.55133, 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
- 2010950003763
- 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
- 6404
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 2010.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders, 8 November 2010
14 m awayRef 2010950008246
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders, 25 March 2002
161 m awayRef 2002950002876
Serious
Car crash on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders, 28 July 1985
206 m awayRef 198595785G041
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders, 29 November 2024
305 m awayRef 2024991551100
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders, 24 July 1995
322 m awayRef 1995950743495
Slight
Aprilia crash on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders, 27 July 2004
344 m awayRef 2004950006276
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
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 2010950003763 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 2010.