Serious B6371 crash in East Lothian on 31 March 1993 at 15:15 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the B6371 in East Lothian at 15:15 on Wednesday 31 March 1993. The 17-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Mar 1993
- Wednesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89076, longitude -2.93723, in the EH37 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993950353693
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6371
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 277 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 October 1998.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B6371 in East Lothian, 5 October 1998
277 m awayRef 1998950977898
Serious
Car crash on the B6371 in East Lothian, 19 December 2005
429 m awayRef 2005950011455
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 1 August 1993
440 m awayRef 1993950821093
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A6093 in East Lothian, 25 June 2017
558 m awayRef 2017950001836
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B6371 in East Lothian, 19 October 2002
582 m awayRef 2002950009384
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B6371 in East Lothian, 8 December 2007
664 m awayRef 2007950010262
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 1993950353693 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 1993.