Serious unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH26 on 30 September 2007 at 00:30 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 00:30 on Sunday 30 September 2007. A 47-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Sep 2007
- Sunday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84773, longitude -3.19112, in the EH26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Penicuik.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950008422
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 1991.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 21 July 1991
20 m awayRef 1991950815591
Serious
Car crash on the B7026 in Midlothian, 21 September 2013
39 m awayRef 2013950005398
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 45LF crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 2 April 2010
45 m awayRef 2010950002551
Slight
Car crash on the A703 in Midlothian, 15 December 1993
50 m awayRef 1993951398893
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 19 September 1992
57 m awayRef 1992951081592
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 30 May 2017
75 m awayRef 2017950001417
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 2007950008422 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 2007.