B6358 crash in the Scottish Borders on 24 January 2014 at 14:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the B6358 in the Scottish Borders at 14:00 on Friday 24 January 2014. The 39-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2014
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.47204, longitude -2.33316, 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
- 2014950000487
- 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
- 6358
- 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
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1.3 km away, was a slight injury crash on 21 June 2005.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B6401 in the Scottish Borders, 21 June 2005
1.3 km awayRef 2005950005400
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 31 January 2008
1.4 km awayRef 2008950001119
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 16 June 1992
2.5 km awayRef 1992950681592
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 17 December 2001
3.3 km awayRef 2001950011424
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 17 February 1992
3.5 km awayRef 1992950234792
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 21 July 1979
3.5 km awayRef 197995779G047
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 2014950000487 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 2014.