Latest Leadburn crash leads to fresh safety calls

David O'Leary • Published 2 Jul 2010 09:30 6 Comments

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FRESH calls have been made to upgrade the Leadburn junction after another accident at the notorious traffic blackspot.

A silver Landrover Discovery was travelling north on the A702 Penicuik road at around 11.30am yesterday (Thursday) when it rolled and smashed through a fence before coming to a stop on its side in a field.

Two ambulances attended the scene and the road northbound was closed for several hours. The condition of the occupants was unknown at the time of going to press.

Local landowner Tom Flynn came upon the crash and reiterated the need for upgrading work on the infamous stretch of road.

"It's just ridiculous - how many crashes must there be before something is done?

"There are actually plans submitted to Midlothian Council to build houses at the exact spot where the car left the road. If they had been built that crash would have left the owners with a vehicle or in their garden, or even worse, smashing through their home."

This article appeared in Peeblesshire News 02 Jul 10

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a driver
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Jul 2, 14:04
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The A702 doesn't get within 3 miles of Leadburn so yet again the Peeblesshire has got the story wrong.

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Hmmm
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Jul 2, 17:38
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Yes, and that's what's important here of course.

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Common sense
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Jul 4, 11:17
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Could it be that it was actually the A701 not the A702?

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leadburnresident
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Jul 12, 23:50
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I Live in Leadburn and it is an absolute disgrace, we need a roundabout. How many more people are going to die, the council had the funding in place so it should be going ahead. This is peoples lifes we are talking about, i go through the junction everyday with three young children in the car and it is a gamble, the speed cars go through it, it is not good enough just to upgrade it. WE NEED A ROUNDABOUT

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a driver
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Jul 14, 12:26
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The local paper reported that this crash was half a mile away from the junction, on the A701.

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Leadburn resident
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Jul 17, 21:38
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You obviously don't get it!! If there was a

roundabout, people would slow down

and not be doing the speed, its a bad bit

of road from junction to Penicuik and

as a resident there are crashes & road

closures all the time, due to the speed

that cars go at from Penicuik to

Peebles, the police should be doing

speed checks of what cars are doing

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