Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH23 on 25 September 2006 at 01:00 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra crashed on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 01:00 on Monday 25 September 2006. The 18-year-old female driver and a 17-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Sep 2006
- Monday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82332, longitude -3.01734, in the EH23 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950009049
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
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The nearest, 164 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 January 2012.
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2006950009049 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 2006.