Unclassified road crash in East Lothian EH21 on 2 May 2005 at 19:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Lothian at 19:25 on Monday 2 May 2005. A 6-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
- 2 May 2005
- Monday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94154, longitude -3.00971, in the EH21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wallyford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Musselburgh, East Lothian, EH21 8DZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950003749
- 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
- Urban
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 30 May 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A6094 in East Lothian, 30 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198995589E035
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 22 May 2015
6 m awayRef 2015950002427
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 6 May 2003
22 m awayRef 2003950003707
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A6094 in East Lothian, 19 February 2025
53 m awayRef 2025991555861
Slight
Renault Master crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 17 August 2016
61 m awayRef 2016950003947
Serious
Bus crash on the A6094 in East Lothian, 14 November 1983
72 m awayRef 198395N83E031
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2005950003749 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 2005.