Serious B1347 crash in East Lothian on 10 July 1998 at 15:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B1347 in East Lothian at 15:00 on Friday 10 July 1998. The 28-year-old male rider 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
- 10 Jul 1998
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97694, longitude -2.73756, in the EH39 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998950658698
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 22 July 1997.
Slight
Honda CBR600F crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 22 July 1997
At the same spotRef 1997950746997
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 1 February 2009
14 m awayRef 2009950000815
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 1 June 1998
14 m awayRef 1998950528598
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 4 February 2002
240 m awayRef 2002950001155
Slight
Car crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 17 January 1982
250 m awayRef 198295182E012
Slight
Car crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 10 April 1988
256 m awayRef 198895488E010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1998950658698 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 1998.