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Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH26 on 24 December 1988 at 19:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 19:30 on Saturday 24 December 1988. A 74-year-old female 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
24 Dec 1988
Saturday, 19:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.83435, longitude -3.22183, in the EH26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Penicuik.

Map of where the crash happened in Midlothian

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198895D88E032
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
A
Second road number
701

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 slight injury crash on 14 December 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 74, 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 198895D88E032 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 1988.