B6397 crash in the Scottish Borders on 31 March 2017 at 11:39 involving a Mitsubishi Outlander
A Mitsubishi Outlander crashed on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders at 11:39 on Friday 31 March 2017. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 2017
- Friday, 11:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Outlander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60613, longitude -2.50714, 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
- 2017950001169
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2015.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 16 October 2015
5 m awayRef 2015950004577
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 26 July 1998
12 m awayRef 1998950714898
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 30 May 1998
18 m awayRef 1998950526398
Slight
Car crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 2 May 1980
28 m awayRef 198095580G006
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 27 April 1998
30 m awayRef 1998950408298
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 11 October 2002
49 m awayRef 2002950009056
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Outlander
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 and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Outlander)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2017950001169 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 2017.