Serious A198 crash in East Lothian on 27 June 2007 at 17:25 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on the A198 in East Lothian at 17:25 on Wednesday 27 June 2007. A 19-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jun 2007
- Wednesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.05796, longitude -2.73462, in the EH39 postcode district and within the built-up area of North Berwick.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950005609
- 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
- 198
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 9 February 1996.
Serious
Leyland crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 9 February 1996
At the same spotRef 1996950145296
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 1 March 1991
10 m awayRef 1991950253291
Slight
Car crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 5 April 1992
20 m awayRef 1992950409492
Slight
Lorry crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 27 February 1989
20 m awayRef 198995289E043
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 27 May 2012
22 m awayRef 2012950002921
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 16 January 2002
32 m awayRef 2002950000434
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2007950005609 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.