B704 crash in Midlothian on 31 March 1985 at 08:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B704 in Midlothian at 08:00 on Sunday 31 March 1985. The 26-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 1985
- Sunday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87614, longitude -3.10694, in the EH19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bonnyrigg.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198595385E034
- 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
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 7 October 1992
At the same spotRef 1992951164192
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 6 March 2012
10 m awayRef 2012950001394
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 28 November 1996
10 m awayRef 1996951251296
Slight
Car crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 29 August 1981
10 m awayRef 198195881E039
Serious
Car crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 20 March 1979
10 m awayRef 197995379E030
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 5 April 2005
20 m awayRef 2005950002943
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 198595385E034 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 1985.