Unclassified road crash in East Lothian EH21 on 20 October 2014 at 17:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in East Lothian at 17:00 on Monday 20 October 2014. A 26-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
- 20 Oct 2014
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94347, longitude -3.06489, 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
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950005520
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 37 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 1979.
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 1 May 1979
37 m awayRef 197995579E027
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 1 May 2016
53 m awayRef 2016950002183
Serious
Van crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 22 November 1985
56 m awayRef 198595N85E039
Fatal
Car crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 9 November 1986
56 m awayRef 198695N86E043
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 5 July 1982
59 m awayRef 198295782E026
Serious
Bus crash on the A199 in East Lothian, 30 May 1989
65 m awayRef 198995589E038
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2014950005520 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.