A6106 crash in Midlothian on 5 May 1991 at 17:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A6106 in Midlothian at 17:50 on Sunday 5 May 1991. A 26-year-old male passenger 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
- 5 May 1991
- Sunday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91099, longitude -3.08825, in the EH22 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991950508891
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6106
- 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
- 6106
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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 2000.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 30 March 2000
36 m awayRef 2000950002975
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 7 March 2009
155 m awayRef 2009950001609
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 16 May 2001
155 m awayRef 2001950004338
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 20 August 1987
179 m awayRef 198795887E054
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6415 in Midlothian, 15 November 2017
180 m awayRef 2017950002415
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 22 August 2016
181 m awayRef 2016950004173
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1991950508891 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 1991.