B1347 crash in East Lothian on 9 February 1995 at 17:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B1347 in East Lothian at 17:00 on Thursday 9 February 1995. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Feb 1995
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.04233, longitude -2.72533, in the EH39 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995950146495
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1347
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 22 July 1989
41 m awayRef 198995789E042
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 9 August 2008
242 m awayRef 2008950006902
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 8 February 2019
366 m awayRef 2019950000172
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 21 April 2012
410 m awayRef 2012950002252
Serious
Yamaha FZS crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 18 September 2022
469 m awayRef 2022991220618
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 9 June 1990
470 m awayRef 1990950691090
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 1995950146495 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 1995.