Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH22 on 3 November 1979 at 08:00 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 08:00 on Saturday 3 November 1979. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 1979
- Saturday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92958, longitude -3.09966, in the EH22 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197995N79E027
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 14 January 1979
10 m awayRef 197995179E004
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 23 January 1982
36 m awayRef 198295182E010
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 19 January 2013
39 m awayRef 2013950000327
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Midlothian, 16 December 1986
58 m awayRef 198695D86D013
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 15 January 2006
112 m awayRef 2006950000347
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 16 October 1986
117 m awayRef 198695O86E022
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197995N79E027 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Midlothian road accident statistics for 1979.