A701 crash in Midlothian on 17 August 1990 at 06:00 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on the A701 in Midlothian at 06:00 on Friday 17 August 1990. The 29-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 1990
- Friday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86258, longitude -3.18389, in the EH25 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990950975490
- 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
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 701
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 12 December 2000.
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 12 December 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950011556
Slight
Volvo crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 28 August 1992
At the same spotRef 1992950984292
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 6 February 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950001236
Serious
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 23 July 1993
At the same spotRef 1993950781993
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A703 in Midlothian, 18 October 2012
At the same spotRef 2012950005832
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A703 in Midlothian, 25 January 2014
6 m awayRef 2014950000482
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 1990950975490 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 1990.