Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH22 on 25 August 2015 at 09:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford Transit Custom van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 09:50 on Tuesday 25 August 2015. The 22-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Aug 2015
- Tuesday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89474, longitude -3.00167, in the EH22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Midlothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950003910
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 53 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 1997.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A6124 in Midlothian, 27 February 1997
53 m awayRef 1997950228197
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A6124 in Midlothian, 31 March 2004
53 m awayRef 2004950002695
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A6124 in Midlothian, 10 June 2004
53 m awayRef 2004950004855
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 11 December 1988
53 m awayRef 198895D88E012
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6124 in Midlothian, 5 May 2005
57 m awayRef 2005950003846
Slight
Car crash on the A6124 in Midlothian, 15 February 2008
80 m awayRef 2008950001766
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2015950003910 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.