Unclassified road crash in East Lothian EH42 on 9 August 1989 at 16:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Lothian at 16:30 on Wednesday 9 August 1989. A 77-year-old female 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
- 9 Aug 1989
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99463, longitude -2.55065, in the EH42 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198995889E010
- Council area
- East Lothian
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 77, 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 198995889E010 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Lothian road accident statistics for 1989.