B1348 crash in East Lothian on 4 April 1988 at 22:45 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the B1348 in East Lothian at 22:45 on Monday 4 April 1988. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 1988
- Monday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97169, longitude -2.95264, in the EH32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cockenzie and Port Seton.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198895488E007
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1348
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2007.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 8 September 2007
At the same spotRef 2007950007737
Serious
Volvo crash on the B1348 in East Lothian, 1 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025991662269
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 2 September 2006
10 m awayRef 2006950007664
Serious
Car crash on the B1348 in East Lothian, 7 September 1983
10 m awayRef 198395983E006
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B1348 in East Lothian, 4 January 1994
10 m awayRef 1994950008494
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B1348 in East Lothian, 9 January 1993
10 m awayRef 1993950028293
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- 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 198895488E007 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 1988.