Serious unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH22 on 24 June 1989 at 15:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 15:50 on Saturday 24 June 1989. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jun 1989
- Saturday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87086, longitude -3.04302, 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
- 198995689E021
- 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
- Other 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, 80 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2000.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 6 December 2000
80 m awayRef 2000950011281
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 8 February 1985
100 m awayRef 198595285E025
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 31 May 2000
100 m awayRef 2000950004904
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 16 April 2000
104 m awayRef 2000950003456
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 8 June 1996
108 m awayRef 1996950577496
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 8 September 1986
108 m awayRef 198695986E010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 5, 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 198995689E021 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 1989.