A6106 crash in Midlothian on 25 March 2003 at 04:15 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the A6106 in Midlothian at 04:15 on Tuesday 25 March 2003. The 22-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Mar 2003
- Tuesday, 04:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90258, longitude -3.08979, in the EH22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dalkeith, Midlothian, EH22 1RU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950002602
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6106
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2011.
Slight
Car crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 19 April 2011
22 m awayRef 2011950002610
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 20 May 2025
25 m awayRef 2025991598693
Slight
Car crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 11 February 1987
41 m awayRef 198795287E013
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 14 May 2002
50 m awayRef 2002950004296
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 30 May 2003
58 m awayRef 2003950004503
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 27 May 2021
109 m awayRef 2021991049871
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
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 2003950002602 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 2003.