B6397 crash in the Scottish Borders on 16 October 2015 at 21:40 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders at 21:40 on Friday 16 October 2015. A 17-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 2015
- Friday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.6061, longitude -2.50707, 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
- 2015950004577
- 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
- 6397
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2017.
Slight
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 31 March 2017
5 m awayRef 2017950001169
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 26 July 1998
8 m awayRef 1998950714898
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 30 May 1998
22 m awayRef 1998950526398
Slight
Car crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 2 May 1980
32 m awayRef 198095580G006
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 27 April 1998
33 m awayRef 1998950408298
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 11 October 2002
53 m awayRef 2002950009056
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2015950004577 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.