Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH22 on 18 January 1981 at 23:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 23:15 on Sunday 18 January 1981. A 37-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 1981
- Sunday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89223, longitude -3.05527, in the EH22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dalkeith.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198195181E015
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 12 June 1995.
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 12 June 1995
At the same spotRef 1995950595495
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 23 August 1995
At the same spotRef 1995950855995
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 25 August 2016
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 1 November 1981
10 m awayRef 198195N81E004
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 9 November 2017
13 m awayRef 2017950002372
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 25 June 1981
22 m awayRef 198195681E058
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 198195181E015 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 1981.