Unclassified road crash in East Lothian EH41 on 9 September 2000 at 13:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian at 13:00 on Saturday 9 September 2000. The 8-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Sep 2000
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95469, longitude -2.76902, in the EH41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haddington.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950008207
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 May 1988.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 2 May 1988
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 3 May 1998
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 8, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2000950008207 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 2000.