B7026 crash in Midlothian on 30 January 2016 at 20:35 involving a Nissan Juke
A Nissan Juke crashed on the B7026 in Midlothian at 20:35 on Saturday 30 January 2016. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow and high winds on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2016
- Saturday, 20:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Juke
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.81579, longitude -3.20233, in the EH26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Midlothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016950000747
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7026
- 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
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 107 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 2015.
Slight
Nissan Navara crash on the A6094 in Midlothian, 2 January 2015
107 m awayRef 201595DFT0002
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B7026 in Midlothian, 26 July 1997
112 m awayRef 1997950764797
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the B6372 in Midlothian, 6 November 2005
113 m awayRef 2005950009874
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B7026 in Midlothian, 10 January 2012
113 m awayRef 2012950000170
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B7026 in Midlothian, 31 July 2013
122 m awayRef 2013950003992
Slight
Volvo 244 crash on the B6372 in Midlothian, 17 July 1998
142 m awayRef 1998950693898
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Juke
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Juke)
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 2016950000747 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 2016.