B6398 crash in the Scottish Borders on 24 May 2014 at 15:30 involving a Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle crashed on the B6398 in the Scottish Borders at 15:30 on Saturday 24 May 2014. The 25-year-old male rider 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
- 24 May 2014
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha Ybr 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.56817, longitude -2.70163, 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
- 2014950002834
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6398
- 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
- 30%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 70%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 2018.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6398 in the Scottish Borders, 7 March 2018
22 m awayRef 2018950000295
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6398 in the Scottish Borders, 16 April 1998
152 m awayRef 1998950376698
Slight
Car crash on the B6398 in the Scottish Borders, 29 August 2000
318 m awayRef 2000950007862
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 5 September 2000
319 m awayRef 2000950008044
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3698 in the Scottish Borders, 13 October 1996
374 m awayRef 1996951049396
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the B6398 in the Scottish Borders, 30 October 2012
503 m awayRef 2012950006059
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha Ybr 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha Ybr 125)
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 2014950002834 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.