Serious A6137 crash in East Lothian on 27 October 2008 at 01:40 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A6137 in East Lothian at 01:40 on Monday 27 October 2008. The 48-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Oct 2008
- Monday, 01:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.0018, longitude -2.8474, in the EH32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950009301
- 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
- 6137
- 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
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 2010.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A6137 in East Lothian, 23 May 2010
20 m awayRef 2010950003699
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A6137 in East Lothian, 13 February 2016
47 m awayRef 2016950000986
Serious
Car crash on the A6137 in East Lothian, 1 September 1983
80 m awayRef 198395983E002
Slight
Car crash on the A6137 in East Lothian, 17 July 1980
80 m awayRef 198095780E032
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A6137 in East Lothian, 18 July 2015
94 m awayRef 2015950003886
Slight
Car crash on the A6137 in East Lothian, 27 June 2008
455 m awayRef 2008950005286
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, 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 2008950009301 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 2008.