Serious B6357 crash in the Scottish Borders on 8 October 2017 at 17:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders at 17:15 on Sunday 8 October 2017. The 57-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Oct 2017
- Sunday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.30816, longitude -2.65703, 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
- 2017950002186
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6357
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 80 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 June 2001.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 24 June 2001
80 m awayRef 2001950005602
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 5 September 2016
253 m awayRef 2016950004249
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 10 September 2006
262 m awayRef 2006950008150
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 22 July 1985
341 m awayRef 198595785G011
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 26 August 2018
363 m awayRef 2018950001169
Serious
Triumph Street Triple crash on the B6357 in the Scottish Borders, 5 April 2015
367 m awayRef 2015950001657
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,137 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 57, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017950002186 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.