B6404 crash in the Scottish Borders on 14 August 2015 at 14:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders at 14:00 on Friday 14 August 2015. The 18-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
- 14 Aug 2015
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60408, longitude -2.53305, 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
- 2015950003809
- 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
- 6404
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 2003.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders, 5 July 2003
24 m awayRef 2003950005508
Serious
MAN crash on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders, 17 August 2009
43 m awayRef 2009950006252
Serious
Car crash on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders, 23 May 1985
46 m awayRef 198595585G034
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders, 22 June 2010
87 m awayRef 2010950004433
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders, 5 September 1995
165 m awayRef 1995950910895
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders, 5 April 1993
198 m awayRef 1993950372193
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 2015950003809 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.