B6397 crash in the Scottish Borders on 4 December 2018 at 00:05 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders at 00:05 on Tuesday 4 December 2018. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2018
- Tuesday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.60434, longitude -2.49689, 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
- 2018950001653
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 29 March 2005
7 m awayRef 2005950002752
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 5 April 2016
59 m awayRef 2016950001831
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 10 May 2003
519 m awayRef 2003950003898
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the B6404 in the Scottish Borders, 15 August 1990
526 m awayRef 1990950966190
Serious
Car crash on the B6397 in the Scottish Borders, 13 April 2000
560 m awayRef 2000950004315
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the Scottish Borders, 19 January 1981
572 m awayRef 198195181G018
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
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 off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018950001653 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 2018.