B704 crash in Midlothian on 7 December 2000 at 09:00 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the B704 in Midlothian at 09:00 on Thursday 7 December 2000. The 43-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 68-year-old female driver of vehicle 3 were 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
- 7 Dec 2000
- Thursday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950011827
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 704
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 2000950011827 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.