B6397 crash in the Scottish Borders on 11 March 2011 at 06:15 involving a Mitsubishi L200 van
A Mitsubishi L200 van crashed on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders at 06:15 on Friday 11 March 2011. A 47-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Mar 2011
- Friday, 06:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi L200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60942, longitude -2.52222, 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
- 2011950001782
- 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
- 6397
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 2005.
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 2 January 2005
10 m awayRef 2005950000067
Slight
Car crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 16 April 2000
14 m awayRef 2000950003515
Slight
Car crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 2 June 2000
14 m awayRef 2000950005203
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 10 February 2005
82 m awayRef 2005950001449
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 4 July 1989
102 m awayRef 198995789G005
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 28 May 1997
180 m awayRef 1997950544397
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi L200
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 47, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi L200)
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 2011950001782 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 2011.