A6137 crash in East Lothian on 19 February 2009 at 19:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A car and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A6137 in East Lothian at 19:10 on Thursday 19 February 2009. The 41-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Feb 2009
- Thursday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.96459, longitude -2.79468, in the EH41 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009950001280
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 126 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 2019.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A6137 in East Lothian, 23 September 2019
126 m awayRef 2019950881324
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A6137 in East Lothian, 21 April 2001
194 m awayRef 2001950003587
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6137 in East Lothian, 17 January 2005
220 m awayRef 2005950000451
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A6137 in East Lothian, 12 December 2016
225 m awayRef 2016950005790
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 26 January 2008
334 m awayRef 2008950000940
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 13 May 2006
350 m awayRef 2006950004170
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2009950001280 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 2009.