Serious B6355 crash in the Scottish Borders on 13 July 2015 at 16:30 involving a Seat Alhambra
A Seat Alhambra crashed on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders at 16:30 on Monday 13 July 2015. The 43-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jul 2015
- Monday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Alhambra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82915, longitude -2.12734, in the TD14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950003290
- 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
- 6355
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 7 May 2004
3 m awayRef 2004950003847
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 22 October 2008
11 m awayRef 2008950009035
Slight
Chrysler Neon crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 17 October 2013
12 m awayRef 2013950005742
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 17 October 2013
12 m awayRef 2013950005743
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 11 September 2013
19 m awayRef 2013950005076
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B6355 in the Scottish Borders, 30 September 2009
25 m awayRef 2009950007262
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Alhambra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Alhambra)
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 2015950003290 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 2015.