A1 crash in East Lothian on 31 August 2005 at 17:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A1 in East Lothian at 17:00 on Wednesday 31 August 2005. The 48-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Aug 2005
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.98896, longitude -2.56227, in the EH42 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunbar and East Linton, East Lothian, EH42 1ST area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950007552
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 February 2022.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 19 February 2022
4 m awayRef 2022991145297
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 10 December 2015
4 m awayRef 2015950005635
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 28 July 2023
5 m awayRef 2023991342057
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 16 August 2013
6 m awayRef 2013950004104
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 23 April 2021
6 m awayRef 2021991038430
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 10 August 2018
7 m awayRef 2018950001459
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2005950007552 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 2005.