B703 crash in Midlothian on 4 February 1998 at 09:40 involving a Nissan Bluebird
A Nissan Bluebird hit a pedestrian on the B703 in Midlothian at 09:40 on Wednesday 4 February 1998. An 86-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
- 4 Feb 1998
- Wednesday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Bluebird
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86473, longitude -3.06635, in the EH22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gorebridge and Mayfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998950126098
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 703
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 29 August 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the B703 in Midlothian, 29 August 1982
At the same spotRef 198295882E048
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 5 August 2002
At the same spotRef 2002950006895
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 8 July 2014
7 m awayRef 2014950003736
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 2 September 1995
10 m awayRef 1995950895395
Serious
Van crash on the B703 in Midlothian, 13 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198595N85E023
Slight
Car crash on the B703 in Midlothian, 5 May 1979
20 m awayRef 197995579E005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 86, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
- 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 1998950126098 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 1998.