A703 crash in Midlothian on 6 April 1987 at 08:57 involving a car
A car crashed on the A703 in Midlothian at 08:57 on Monday 6 April 1987. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 1987
- Monday, 08:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88689, longitude -3.19726, in the EH10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Midlothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198795487E007
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 703
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 May 2014.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 27 May 2014
13 m awayRef 2014950002892
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A703 in Midlothian, 3 February 1996
14 m awayRef 1996950111796
Slight
Volvo crash on the A703 in Midlothian, 12 March 1997
14 m awayRef 1997950276997
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A703 in Midlothian, 4 March 1997
22 m awayRef 1997950266397
Serious
Van crash on the A703 in Midlothian, 3 February 1987
36 m awayRef 198795287E005
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A703 in Midlothian, 25 May 1996
36 m awayRef 1996950523496
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, 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 198795487E007 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.