Serious B1345 crash in East Lothian on 14 January 1989 at 01:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B1345 in East Lothian at 01:00 on Saturday 14 January 1989. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Jan 1989
- Saturday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.04196, longitude -2.78567, in the EH39 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198995189E014
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1345
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 198
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1345 in East Lothian, 28 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198695986E052
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 3 August 2007
At the same spotRef 2007950006714
Serious
Car crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 9 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198995989E016
Serious
Van crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 16 January 1979
At the same spotRef 197995179E028
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 26 May 1991
32 m awayRef 1991950582491
Serious
Car crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 31 October 1989
54 m awayRef 198995O89E054
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198995189E014 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 1989.