A701 crash in Midlothian on 19 December 2014 at 21:10 involving a Peugeot Partner
A Peugeot Partner crashed on the A701 in Midlothian at 21:10 on Friday 19 December 2014. The 56-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2014
- Friday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Partner
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.81137, longitude -3.22995, in the EH26 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950006728
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 701
- 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
- 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
- 26%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 74%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2009.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 28 November 2009
18 m awayRef 2009950009521
Serious
Ducati 996 Biposto crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 18 June 2001
33 m awayRef 2001950005389
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 19 November 1986
47 m awayRef 198695N86E051
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 29 March 2006
83 m awayRef 2006950002748
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A703 in Midlothian, 25 January 2002
88 m awayRef 2002950000813
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 30 March 1982
90 m awayRef 198295382E038
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
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 2014950006728 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.