Unclassified road crash in East Lothian EH41 on 12 May 2012 at 16:20 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Lothian at 16:20 on Saturday 12 May 2012. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2012
- Saturday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95673, longitude -2.78699, in the EH41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haddington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Haddington and Lammermuir, East Lothian, EH41 3LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012950002632
- Council area
- East Lothian
- 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
- T or staggered 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
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 June 1995.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 3 June 1995
54 m awayRef 1995950567695
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 29 January 1982
70 m awayRef 198295182E028
Slight
Mazda CX7 crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 5 November 2019
105 m awayRef 2019950895986
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B6471 in East Lothian, 14 September 1979
110 m awayRef 197995979E016
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 2 May 2006
110 m awayRef 2006950003768
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 29 November 2002
110 m awayRef 2002950010906
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, 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 2012950002632 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 2012.