Serious B6372 crash in Midlothian on 21 March 2005 at 13:00 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on the B6372 in Midlothian at 13:00 on Monday 21 March 2005. The 31-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Mar 2005
- Monday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.80003, longitude -3.16094, in the EH26 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950002540
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6372
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 345 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 November 1981.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6372 in Midlothian, 22 November 1981
345 m awayRef 198195N81E040
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 10 December 1988
355 m awayRef 198895D88E015
Slight
Honda FR-V crash on the B6372 in Midlothian, 23 July 2008
614 m awayRef 2008950006628
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B6372 in Midlothian, 10 January 2012
636 m awayRef 2012950000321
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6372 in Midlothian, 15 April 2019
721 m awayRef 2019950000446
Serious
Mazda 2 crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 18 June 2024
766 m awayRef 2024991479878
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,157 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 2005950002540 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 2005.