Serious B6355 crash in East Lothian on 27 June 2003 at 22:00 involving a Ford Puma
A Ford Puma crashed on the B6355 in East Lothian at 22:00 on Friday 27 June 2003. The 30-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jun 2003
- Friday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Puma
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91158, longitude -2.86143, in the EH34 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003950005339
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6355
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 1994.
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the B6355 in East Lothian, 16 April 1994
10 m awayRef 1994950432794
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6355 in East Lothian, 5 July 2004
14 m awayRef 2004950005674
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B6355 in East Lothian, 17 August 2016
21 m awayRef 2016950003961
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B6355 in East Lothian, 8 December 1995
22 m awayRef 1995951297695
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6355 in East Lothian, 31 January 2005
28 m awayRef 2005950000943
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B6355 in East Lothian, 7 April 2014
37 m awayRef 2014950001898
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Puma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,679 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Puma)
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 2003950005339 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 2003.