A697 crash in the Scottish Borders on 15 September 2010 at 16:35 involving a Yamaha YZF R6 motorcycle
A Yamaha YZF R6 motorcycle crashed on the A697 in the Scottish Borders at 16:35 on Wednesday 15 September 2010. The 48-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
- 15 Sep 2010
- Wednesday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha YZF R6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.72429, longitude -2.72738, 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
- 2010950006811
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 697
- 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
- 39%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 61%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 2011.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 11 January 2011
10 m awayRef 2011950000332
Slight
Car crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 15 March 1982
41 m awayRef 198295382G016
Slight
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 20 July 2022
48 m awayRef 2022991201947
Serious
Car crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 8 April 1988
54 m awayRef 198895488G010
Slight
Car crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 21 February 2005
60 m awayRef 2005950001651
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 6 May 2014
95 m awayRef 2014950002470
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YZF R6
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YZF R6)
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 2010950006811 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.