Unclassified road crash in East Lothian EH41 on 21 September 2003 at 13:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian at 13:00 on Sunday 21 September 2003. The 12-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 2003
- Sunday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95855, longitude -2.78303, in the EH41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haddington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Haddington and Lammermuir, East Lothian, EH41 3LX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950007722
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 86 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2009.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 16 October 2009
86 m awayRef 2009950007797
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 29 June 1990
94 m awayRef 1990950769190
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 12 November 1986
168 m awayRef 198695N86E016
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 20 December 2009
168 m awayRef 2009950010223
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 5 September 1992
170 m awayRef 1992951019892
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 21 July 2003
170 m awayRef 2003950005917
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 12, on vehicle 2 (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 2003950007722 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 2003.