A6106 crash in Midlothian on 22 December 2012 at 12:50 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus, a Ford Fusion and a Vauxhall Insignia were involved in a crash on the A6106 in Midlothian at 12:50 on Saturday 22 December 2012. A 40-year-old male passenger in the Ford Fusion was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Focus and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90861, longitude -3.089, in the EH22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Midlothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012950007271
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 September 2010.
Serious
Nissan Navara crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 10 September 2010
20 m awayRef 2010950006593
Slight
Car crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 3 April 1985
30 m awayRef 198595485E003
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 21 December 2006
30 m awayRef 2006950011657
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 20 November 2003
30 m awayRef 2003950009653
Fatal
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 4 August 2022
38 m awayRef 2022991206311
Slight
Leyland DAF Fat 75 crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 19 January 1999
90 m awayRef 1999950063199
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fusion)
- 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 2012950007271 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 2012.