A701 crash in Midlothian on 6 January 1987 at 17:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A701 in Midlothian at 17:30 on Tuesday 6 January 1987. The 45-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jan 1987
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86928, longitude -3.1785, in the EH25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Midlothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198795187E006
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 701
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 7006
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 1993.
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 5 September 1993
At the same spotRef 1993950955193
Serious
Car crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 30 March 1982
At the same spotRef 198295382E033
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 29 September 1995
At the same spotRef 1995950999295
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 5 June 1985
10 m awayRef 198595685E005
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 1 December 2000
10 m awayRef 2000950011102
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 24 February 1987
10 m awayRef 198795287E026
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198795187E006 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 1987.