B704 crash in Midlothian on 9 January 2008 at 22:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the B704 in Midlothian at 22:00 on Wednesday 9 January 2008. The 19-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 2008
- Wednesday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85956, longitude -3.07724, in the EH19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950000310
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 704
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 26 December 1993
14 m awayRef 1993951456593
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 2 December 2006
14 m awayRef 2006950010909
Slight
Car crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 4 March 1982
22 m awayRef 198295382E017
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 21 July 2008
22 m awayRef 2008950006561
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 20 June 1997
28 m awayRef 1997950633997
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 11 January 2014
34 m awayRef 2014950000171
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2008950000310 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 2008.