B6437 crash in the Scottish Borders on 25 October 2010 at 22:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A car and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders at 22:00 on Monday 25 October 2010. The 47-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 2010
- Monday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.78348, longitude -2.21665, in the TD11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950007813
- 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
- 6437
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2011.
Slight
Car crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 17 January 2011
22 m awayRef 2011950000411
Slight
Car crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 9 September 2000
32 m awayRef 2000950008225
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 22 May 2010
41 m awayRef 2010950003648
Slight
Volvo 460 crash on the B6437 in the Scottish Borders, 25 January 1999
104 m awayRef 1999950087399
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 2 May 2004
133 m awayRef 2004950003662
Slight
Lifan LF 125 crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 28 August 2014
329 m awayRef 2014950004666
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2010950007813 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.