Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH23 on 19 March 1984 at 17:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 17:50 on Monday 19 March 1984. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 1984
- Monday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85109, longitude -3.05447, in the EH23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gorebridge and Mayfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198495384E009
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 March 2013.
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Serious
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Serious
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Slight
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Serious
Carbodies Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 20 December 1996
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Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 17 June 1982
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198495384E009 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 1984.