Unclassified road crash in East Lothian EH32 on 4 September 2014 at 15:40 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Lothian at 15:40 on Thursday 4 September 2014. An 8-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
- 4 Sep 2014
- Thursday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95696, longitude -2.97018, in the EH32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Prestonpans. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tranent, Wallyford and Macmerry, East Lothian, EH33 1LZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950004701
- Council area
- East Lothian
- 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
- Rural
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
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 1995.
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 3 September 1995
11 m awayRef 1995950902595
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 16 June 2000
19 m awayRef 2000950005417
Serious
Honda SA50J crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 2 October 1991
19 m awayRef 1991951114691
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 15 October 1979
35 m awayRef 197995O79E028
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 12 January 2023
36 m awayRef 2023991262540
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 4 August 1994
44 m awayRef 1994950829394
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2014950004701 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 2014.