Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH22 on 4 July 2015 at 00:01 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 00:01 on Saturday 4 July 2015. A 50-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 2015
- Saturday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87022, longitude -3.05351, in the EH22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gorebridge and Mayfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Midlothian East, Midlothian, EH22 4SX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950003174
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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, street lights unlit
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6482 in Midlothian, 1 July 1997
4 m awayRef 1997950677997
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 6 August 2014
8 m awayRef 2014950004480
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 9 April 1981
11 m awayRef 198195481E032
Slight
Car crash on the B6482 in Midlothian, 28 April 1984
11 m awayRef 198495484E031
Slight
Car crash on the B6482 in Midlothian, 30 October 1984
11 m awayRef 198495O84E039
Serious
Jeep Renegade crash on the B6482 in Midlothian, 7 October 2019
15 m awayRef 2019950885620
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 50, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing 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 2015950003174 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.