A6088 crash in the Scottish Borders on 22 May 2019 at 13:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders at 13:50 on Wednesday 22 May 2019. The 56-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 May 2019
- Wednesday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.42815, longitude -2.74437, in the TD9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Scottish Borders
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019950000619
- 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
- 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
- 42%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 58%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 May 2014.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 31 May 2014
5 m awayRef 2014950003013
Slight
Kawasaki ZX1002 crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 16 August 2024
7 m awayRef 2024991480536
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 27 July 1994
11 m awayRef 1994950797694
Slight
HGV crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 19 June 2008
13 m awayRef 2008950005141
Slight
Car crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 30 December 1981
15 m awayRef 198195D81G031
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A6088 in the Scottish Borders, 16 July 2006
37 m awayRef 2006950006167
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2019950000619 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 2019.