B6368 crash in East Lothian on 3 August 2006 at 14:00 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van crashed on the B6368 in East Lothian at 14:00 on Thursday 3 August 2006. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2006
- Thursday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit Connect
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90544, longitude -2.79827, in the EH41 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006950006732
- 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
- 6368
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6355
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1987.
Slight
Bus crash on the B6355 in East Lothian, 5 October 1987
10 m awayRef 198795O87E007
Serious
Van crash on the B6355 in East Lothian, 21 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198595785E031
Slight
Car crash on the A6137 in East Lothian, 31 December 1980
10 m awayRef 198095D80E047
Fatal
Hyundai Accent crash on the B6355 in East Lothian, 17 January 2005
41 m awayRef 2005950000468
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B6368 in East Lothian, 9 June 2008
197 m awayRef 2008950004802
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6355 in East Lothian, 11 December 2010
480 m awayRef 2010950009194
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Connect)
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 2006950006732 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 2006.