B6470 crash in the Scottish Borders on 11 May 2012 at 19:00 involving a van
A van crashed on the B6470 in the Scottish Borders at 19:00 on Friday 11 May 2012. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 May 2012
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.71751, longitude -2.22791, 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
- 2012950002732
- 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
- 6470
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 141 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2011.
Slight
Car crash on the B6470 in the Scottish Borders, 7 June 2011
141 m awayRef 2011950004714
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6470 in the Scottish Borders, 6 June 2020
145 m awayRef 2020990955733
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6470 in the Scottish Borders, 28 May 1992
260 m awayRef 1992950609692
Serious
Subaru Legacy crash on the B6470 in the Scottish Borders, 22 January 1993
400 m awayRef 1993950090293
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B6461 in the Scottish Borders, 17 August 2010
598 m awayRef 2010950005898
Slight
Car crash on the B6470 in the Scottish Borders, 23 October 2000
1.1 km awayRef 2000950009957
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 2012950002732 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 2012.