A6124 crash in East Lothian on 11 February 2010 at 13:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A6124 in East Lothian at 13:30 on Thursday 11 February 2010. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2010
- Thursday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94064, longitude -3.05259, in the EH21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Musselburgh. It is one of the crashes that make up the Musselburgh, East Lothian, EH21 6PP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950001848
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6124
- 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
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 2009.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 8 November 2009
At the same spotRef 2009950008865
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 21 March 2007
22 m awayRef 2007950002496
Slight
Yamaha NXC 125 crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 31 March 2011
36 m awayRef 2011950002118
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 6 May 1997
42 m awayRef 1997950525597
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 1 June 2001
45 m awayRef 2001950004819
Slight
Car crash on the A6124 in East Lothian, 20 March 1981
51 m awayRef 198195381E045
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 2010950001848 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 2010.