Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH18 on 5 December 2013 at 08:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van, a Renault Clio and a Hyundai Accent were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 08:00 on Thursday 5 December 2013. The 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a flooded single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2013
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Transit and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88527, longitude -3.12816, in the EH18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, EH18 1HB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013950006641
- 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
- 40 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 January 2012.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 6 January 2012
2 m awayRef 2012950000105
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 12 January 2003
2 m awayRef 2003950000318
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 29 July 2013
2 m awayRef 2013950003942
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 23 October 2002
12 m awayRef 2002950009513
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A768 in Midlothian, 31 January 2009
12 m awayRef 2009950000789
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 28 May 2008
12 m awayRef 2008950004468
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 3: Hyundai Accent
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,341 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 2013950006641 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.