Council area · Scotland
Midlothian road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 407 injury collisions in Midlothian's highway authority area, 154 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 407
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 549
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 8
- 146 serious, 253 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 51%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Midlothian recorded 27 fatal or serious collisions, 12% below its average of 31 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 25 | 68 | 95 | 144 |
27
|
| 2022 | 1 | 31 | 74 | 106 | 138 |
32
|
| 2023 | 4 | 36 | 39 | 79 | 96 |
40
|
| 2024 | 0 | 28 | 40 | 68 | 95 |
28
|
| 2025 | 1 | 26 | 32 | 59 | 76 |
27
|
| 2021–2025 | 8 | 146 | 253 | 407 | 549 | 154 |
Casualties by road user
549 people were hurt in these collisions: 8 killed, 156 seriously injured and 385 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 51% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 79 | 14.4% | 39 | 23.8% |
| Pedal cyclists | 36 | 6.6% | 17 | 10.4% |
| Motorcyclists | 41 | 7.5% | 28 | 17.1% |
| All road users | 549 | 100% | 164 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Midlothian, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A7 37 collisions · 12 fatal or serious
- A6094 31 collisions · 15 fatal or serious
- A701 28 collisions · 13 fatal or serious
- A702 27 collisions · 13 fatal or serious
- A6106 26 collisions · 8 fatal or serious
- A68 22 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
- B6372 21 collisions · 7 fatal or serious
- B704 20 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
- A768 14 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
- A720 12 collisions · 3 fatal or serious
Areas within Midlothian
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Midlothian
The council's road safety or traffic team holds the full police records for its area. A formal extract can add what the published data leaves out: contributory factors, the officer's description of each collision and the current year's provisional records. Developers, consultants and solicitors usually pay for it.
Check Midlothian's website for current fees, or contact its road safety team. Councils usually charge for extracts and send a quote before they start.
Source: Department for Transport road safety data (STATS19), 2021–2025, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Collisions are counted against the local highway authority area recorded by the police. Casualty severities are as recorded at the time and are not adjusted.