B7007 crash in Midlothian on 20 September 2000 at 20:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B7007 in Midlothian at 20:30 on Wednesday 20 September 2000. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2000
- Wednesday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.75184, longitude -3.03301, in the EH38 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950009139
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7007
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 103 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 2013.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Scottish Borders, 6 November 2013
103 m awayRef 2013950006020
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the B7007 in the Scottish Borders, 29 July 2013
151 m awayRef 2013950003937
Fatal
Land Rover 110 crash on the B7007 in the Scottish Borders, 30 May 1993
158 m awayRef 1993950582693
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B7007 in the Scottish Borders, 21 July 2000
228 m awayRef 2000950006486
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B7007 in the Scottish Borders, 26 September 2004
237 m awayRef 2004950008305
Slight
Car crash on the B7007 in the Scottish Borders, 10 June 1980
310 m awayRef 198095680G018
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2000950009139 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 2000.