Serious B6455 crash in Midlothian on 28 July 1983 at 13:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B6455 in Midlothian at 13:45 on Thursday 28 July 1983. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jul 1983
- Thursday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87261, longitude -3.05873, in the EH22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gorebridge and Mayfield.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198395783E032
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6455
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 23 September 1987.
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 23 September 1987
14 m awayRef 198795987E026
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 6 November 1999
32 m awayRef 1999950010462
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 19 August 1994
36 m awayRef 1994950887194
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B6462 in Midlothian, 12 September 1993
36 m awayRef 1993950986693
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 18 June 2004
50 m awayRef 2004950005115
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 14 August 2002
94 m awayRef 2002950007212
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198395783E032 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 1983.