Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH20 on 1 April 2015 at 07:50 involving a Peugeot 107
A Peugeot 107 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 07:50 on Wednesday 1 April 2015. A 12-year-old female 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
- 1 Apr 2015
- Wednesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 107
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87646, longitude -3.15671, in the EH20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Loanhead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Midlothian West, Midlothian, EH20 9QH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950001596
- Council area
- Midlothian
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 1993.
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Fiat Tipo crash on the A768 in Midlothian, 18 January 1993
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 11 December 1997
9 m awayRef 1997951299997
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Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 3 February 2018
10 m awayRef 2018950000294
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Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 3 July 2006
14 m awayRef 2006950005749
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 21 February 1996
18 m awayRef 1996950189696
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Car crash on the A768 in Midlothian, 7 August 1980
23 m awayRef 198095880E012
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 107)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2015950001596 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 2015.