Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH26 on 23 April 2010 at 10:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 10:30 on Friday 23 April 2010. A 27-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
- 23 Apr 2010
- Friday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82784, longitude -3.221, in the EH26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Penicuik. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penicuik, Midlothian, EH26 8AR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Midlothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950003180
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2001.
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 31 October 2001
At the same spotRef 2001950009585
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 13 August 2009
At the same spotRef 2009950006135
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 26 October 2002
At the same spotRef 2002950009692
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 2 December 1997
10 m awayRef 1997951260397
Slight
Bus crash on the A701 in Midlothian, 3 December 1983
10 m awayRef 198395D83E021
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 12 September 2006
20 m awayRef 2006950008000
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 2010950003180 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 2010.