Unclassified road crash in the Scottish Borders TD6 on 7 October 2015 at 15:00 involving a Citroen DS3
A bicycle and a Citroen DS3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders at 15:00 on Wednesday 7 October 2015. The 15-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2015
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Citroen DS3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.57876, longitude -2.677, 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
- 2015950004471
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 114 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 1994.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 11 April 1994
114 m awayRef 1994950430294
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 5 February 1999
129 m awayRef 1999950149899
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 24 November 1996
179 m awayRef 1996951235796
Slight
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 5 February 1979
195 m awayRef 197995279G002
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 16 October 1990
198 m awayRef 1990951247390
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 24 September 1983
207 m awayRef 198395983G033
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen DS3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 15, on vehicle 1 (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 2015950004471 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.