Serious unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH19 on 28 November 2009 at 18:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 18:45 on Saturday 28 November 2009. A 44-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Nov 2009
- Saturday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87583, longitude -3.10662, in the EH19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bonnyrigg. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, EH19 2JN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Midlothian
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009950009536
- Council area
- Midlothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 1983.
Slight
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 29 August 1995
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Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 11 July 2002
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Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 3 June 2003
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Slight
Mercedes B Class crash on the B704 in Midlothian, 21 October 2022
12 m awayRef 2022991233210
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2009950009536 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 2009.