Unclassified road crash in East Lothian EH42 on 26 April 2007 at 07:50 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A Daewoo Matiz and a Renault Extra van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian at 07:50 on Thursday 26 April 2007. The 51-year-old female driver of the Daewoo Matiz was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 2007
- Thursday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daewoo Matiz and Renault Extra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.99466, longitude -2.51185, in the EH42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunbar. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunbar and East Linton, East Lothian, EH42 1EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950003600
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 2016.
Slight
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13 m awayRef 2016950003010
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 13 June 1980
70 m awayRef 198095680E011
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 19 April 1996
71 m awayRef 1996950397996
Fatal
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 30 November 2007
143 m awayRef 2007950009965
Serious
Car crash on a C road in East Lothian, 16 July 1987
150 m awayRef 198795787E023
Serious
Car crash on a C road in East Lothian, 9 January 1981
153 m awayRef 198195181E002
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Extra
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Matiz)
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 2007950003600 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 2007.