Serious unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH22 on 15 February 2008 at 19:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 19:25 on Friday 15 February 2008. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Feb 2008
- Friday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87103, longitude -3.03936, in the EH22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gorebridge and Mayfield.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950001765
- 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
- 20 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 1995.
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 21 August 1995
14 m awayRef 1995950845395
Slight
Morris Mini crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 11 March 1990
22 m awayRef 1990950328890
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 17 February 1995
22 m awayRef 1995950177595
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 18 March 1993
22 m awayRef 1993950302793
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 9 April 1981
22 m awayRef 198195481E031
Serious
ERF crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 23 December 1996
28 m awayRef 1996951371896
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2008950001765 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 2008.