Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH22 on 3 February 2005 at 19:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 19:15 on Thursday 3 February 2005. A 23-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 2005
- Thursday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89169, longitude -3.06102, in the EH22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dalkeith. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dalkeith, Midlothian, EH22 2DB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Midlothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950001082
- Council area
- Midlothian
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 October 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the A68 in Midlothian, 20 October 1981
10 m awayRef 198195O81E031
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 30 October 2014
13 m awayRef 2014950005475
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A68 in Midlothian, 28 July 2001
14 m awayRef 2001950006529
Slight
Volvo crash on the A6106 in Midlothian, 13 May 2025
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Slight
Nissan Cherry crash on the A68 in Midlothian, 22 May 1995
20 m awayRef 1995950519695
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A68 in Midlothian, 22 October 1996
20 m awayRef 1996951194296
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 2005950001082 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 2005.