Serious B704 crash in Midlothian on 20 February 1982 at 00:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the B704 in Midlothian at 00:50 on Saturday 20 February 1982. A 22-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Feb 1982
- Saturday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85916, longitude -3.07658, in the EH19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198295282E022
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 704
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 February 1989.
Serious
Van crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 12 February 1989
14 m awayRef 198995289E020
Serious
Bus crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 22 August 1987
14 m awayRef 198795887E039
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 11 August 1982
14 m awayRef 198295882E006
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 20 June 1997
28 m awayRef 1997950633997
Slight
Car crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 4 March 1982
36 m awayRef 198295382E017
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 21 July 2008
36 m awayRef 2008950006561
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198295282E022 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 1982.