Serious A68 crash in Midlothian on 23 September 1990 at 10:40 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 crashed on the A68 in Midlothian at 10:40 on Sunday 23 September 1990. The 31-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Sep 1990
- Sunday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82534, longitude -2.86494, in the EH37 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990951140490
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 68
- 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
- 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 7 January 1986.
Slight
Van crash on the A68 in Midlothian, 7 January 1986
At the same spotRef 198695186E005
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A68 in Midlothian, 3 February 1994
10 m awayRef 1994950131594
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, 7 November 2016
12 m awayRef 2016950005203
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A68 in Midlothian, 19 August 1990
22 m awayRef 1990950987690
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A68 in Midlothian, 5 September 1990
22 m awayRef 1990951067090
Serious
Honda CB125RSD crash on the A68 in Midlothian, 12 July 1990
22 m awayRef 1990950828790
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
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 1990951140490 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.