B704 crash in Midlothian on 8 November 1997 at 19:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B704 in Midlothian at 19:35 on Saturday 8 November 1997. A 47-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 1997
- Saturday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87463, longitude -3.1053, in the EH19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bonnyrigg.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997951157097
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 704
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 11 June 1994.
Slight
Mazda E2000 crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 11 June 1994
At the same spotRef 1994950632994
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 23 September 1999
10 m awayRef 1999950008821
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 6 May 2008
10 m awayRef 2008950003944
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 2 March 2001
10 m awayRef 2001950002153
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B1361 in Midlothian, 30 July 1999
10 m awayRef 1999950007079
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 19 December 2007
10 m awayRef 2007950010734
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1997951157097 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 1997.