Unclassified road crash in Midlothian EH26 on 26 November 2019 at 19:02 involving a Ford Galaxy
A Ford Galaxy hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Midlothian at 19:02 on Tuesday 26 November 2019. A 54-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Nov 2019
- Tuesday, 19:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82768, longitude -3.22649, 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
- 2019950911151
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6372
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6372 in Midlothian, 12 May 1997
6 m awayRef 1997950486397
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 3 August 2011
6 m awayRef 2011950005120
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 22 August 1985
6 m awayRef 198595885E031
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 2 May 1996
6 m awayRef 1996950449196
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 27 August 2011
6 m awayRef 2011950005684
Slight
Volkswagen Urban crash on an unclassified road in Midlothian, 25 May 2011
6 m awayRef 2011950003478
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2019950911151 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 2019.