A702 crash in Midlothian on 8 May 1998 at 17:45 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla crashed on the A702 in Midlothian at 17:45 on Friday 8 May 1998. The 21-year-old male driver 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
- 8 May 1998
- Friday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84252, longitude -3.24077, in the EH26 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998950463198
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 702
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2002.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 19 June 2002
At the same spotRef 2002950005457
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 16 December 1991
At the same spotRef 1991951503091
Serious
Car crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 22 September 1980
At the same spotRef 198095980E038
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 2 April 2008
At the same spotRef 2008950003094
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 23 August 2002
At the same spotRef 2002950007693
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 4 March 2010
At the same spotRef 2010950001726
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
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 1998950463198 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 1998.