Serious A6094 crash in Midlothian on 24 August 2013 at 23:00 involving an Aprilia motorcycle
An Aprilia motorcycle crashed on the A6094 in Midlothian at 23:00 on Saturday 24 August 2013. The 23-year-old female rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Aug 2013
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Aprilia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90066, longitude -3.0521, in the EH22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Midlothian
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013950004321
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6094
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A6094 in Midlothian, 11 March 1982
10 m awayRef 198295382E010
Slight
Van crash on the A6094 in Midlothian, 5 January 1984
26 m awayRef 198495184E003
Serious
Car crash on the A6094 in Midlothian, 8 July 1982
26 m awayRef 198295782E004
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A6094 in Midlothian, 6 April 2012
26 m awayRef 2012950001976
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B6414 in Midlothian, 23 November 2014
35 m awayRef 2014950006397
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A6094 in Midlothian, 29 October 2010
42 m awayRef 2010950007937
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia)
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 2013950004321 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 2013.