B6355 crash in the Scottish Borders on 24 August 2010 at 00:30 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders at 00:30 on Tuesday 24 August 2010. The 18-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were 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
- 24 Aug 2010
- Tuesday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8512, longitude -2.10794, in the TD14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950006097
- 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
- 6355
- 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
- 41%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 59%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 194 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 July 1980.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 25 July 1980
194 m awayRef 198095780G048
Serious
Van crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 17 February 1984
197 m awayRef 198495284G016
Slight
Car crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 27 February 1981
256 m awayRef 198195281G030
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 10 March 2010
314 m awayRef 2010950001905
Serious
Car crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 6 February 1988
320 m awayRef 198895288G004
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in the Scottish Borders, 8 December 2000
320 m awayRef 2000950011404
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2010950006097 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.