A701 crash in Midlothian on 9 May 2015 at 04:45 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza crashed on the A701 in Midlothian at 04:45 on Saturday 9 May 2015. A 19-year-old female passenger 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
- 9 May 2015
- Saturday, 04:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.80095, longitude -3.22356, in the EH26 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950002211
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 1995.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 10 June 1995
45 m awayRef 1995950589095
Serious
Car crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 17 November 1989
45 m awayRef 198995N89E007
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 18 November 1993
218 m awayRef 1993951266293
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A6094 in Midlothian, 2 April 2001
218 m awayRef 2001950003090
Slight
BMW M1 crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 1 January 2020
350 m awayRef 2020990914642
Slight
Car crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 18 June 1986
351 m awayRef 198695686E022
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2015950002211 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 2015.