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Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH19 on 1 December 1996 at 17:50 involving a Kawasaki ZX400 motorcycle

A Kawasaki ZX400 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 17:50 on Sunday 1 December 1996. The 24-year-old female rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
1 Dec 1996
Sunday, 17:50
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki ZX400
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87659, longitude -3.10711, in the EH19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bonnyrigg.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1996951270596
Council area
Midlothian
Police force
Lothian and Borders

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, 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 18 June 1995.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX400

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    24 years
    Engine capacity
    398 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    5 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Female, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX400)

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 1996951270596 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 1996.