B6359 crash in the Scottish Borders on 24 October 2010 at 13:06 involving a Rover 25
A Rover 25 crashed on the B6359 in the Scottish Borders at 13:06 on Sunday 24 October 2010. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2010
- Sunday, 13:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 25
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.57061, longitude -2.73025, in the TD6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950007874
- 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
- 6359
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 1992.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B6359 in the Scottish Borders, 8 November 1992
51 m awayRef 1992951299692
Slight
Car crash on the B6359 in the Scottish Borders, 28 April 2008
54 m awayRef 2008950003731
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B6359 in the Scottish Borders, 15 February 2001
70 m awayRef 2001950001603
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B6359 in the Scottish Borders, 23 March 2012
100 m awayRef 2012950001691
Serious
Car crash on the B6359 in the Scottish Borders, 9 March 1989
170 m awayRef 198995389G019
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6359 in the Scottish Borders, 12 July 1997
383 m awayRef 1997950712397
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 25)
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 2010950007874 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.