A702 crash in Midlothian on 3 August 2014 at 06:00 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane crashed on the A702 in Midlothian at 06:00 on Sunday 3 August 2014. The 21-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2014
- Sunday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86259, longitude -3.21337, in the EH26 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Midlothian West, Midlothian, EH26 0PE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950004267
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 702
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 2013.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 20 October 2013
3 m awayRef 2013950005672
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 2 August 2014
5 m awayRef 2014950004240
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 28 July 2013
11 m awayRef 2013950003927
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 8 August 2014
13 m awayRef 2014950004374
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 17 May 1981
29 m awayRef 198195581E020
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 2 February 2019
35 m awayRef 2019950000137
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
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 2014950004267 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 2014.