Serious A6088 crash in the Scottish Borders on 2 July 2017 at 13:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders at 13:30 on Sunday 2 July 2017. The 54-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Jul 2017
- Sunday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.4085, longitude -2.70413, 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
- 2017950001626
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6088
- 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 with 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, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B6088 in the Scottish Borders, 24 March 1985
26 m awayRef 198595385G024
Serious
Car crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 18 August 1984
31 m awayRef 198495884G018
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 7 October 1995
80 m awayRef 1995951039295
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 7 May 1994
272 m awayRef 1994950508394
Fatal
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 4 November 1998
274 m awayRef 1998951098098
Slight
BMW R 1150 R crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 13 June 2004
345 m awayRef 2004950004971
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,301 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2017950001626 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.