Serious B6357 crash in the Scottish Borders on 10 August 2015 at 19:25 involving a lorry
A lorry and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders at 19:25 on Monday 10 August 2015. The 33-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Aug 2015
- Monday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.332, longitude -2.65023, in the TD9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950003792
- 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
- 6357
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2024.
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 3 March 2024
31 m awayRef 2024991416614
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 21 September 2019
69 m awayRef 2019950879880
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 30 May 1998
339 m awayRef 1998950523198
Serious
BMW R Series crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 11 October 2025
347 m awayRef 2025991653345
Serious
Kawasaki EX650 crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 28 September 2019
363 m awayRef 2019950886991
Slight
Car crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 19 April 1983
424 m awayRef 198395483G020
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 33, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2015950003792 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.