Unclassified road crash in East Lothian EH33 on 14 November 2003 at 13:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Lothian at 13:00 on Friday 14 November 2003. An 18-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 14 Nov 2003
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94086, longitude -2.94789, in the EH33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tranent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tranent, Wallyford and Macmerry, East Lothian, EH33 2EQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950009459
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 2014.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B6371 in East Lothian, 10 October 2014
11 m awayRef 2014950005438
Serious
Car crash on the B6371 in East Lothian, 8 January 1984
22 m awayRef 198495184E004
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6371 in East Lothian, 25 November 2011
22 m awayRef 2011950007555
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B6355 in East Lothian, 30 March 1993
22 m awayRef 1993950348993
Slight
Rover Montego crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 19 February 1997
28 m awayRef 1997950195697
Slight
Car crash on the B6371 in East Lothian, 8 October 1982
30 m awayRef 198295O82E009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2003950009459 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.