A198 crash in East Lothian on 7 November 2009 at 18:30 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on the A198 in East Lothian at 18:30 on Saturday 7 November 2009. An 81-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2009
- Saturday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97661, longitude -2.88964, in the EH32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009950008923
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1377
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 1996.
Slight
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 9 January 1996
10 m awayRef 1996950024296
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1377 in East Lothian, 23 March 1987
28 m awayRef 198795387E023
Slight
Car crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 28 July 1979
32 m awayRef 197995779E054
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 11 July 1987
32 m awayRef 198795787E014
Slight
Bus crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 26 May 1994
32 m awayRef 1994950572394
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 10 November 2016
48 m awayRef 2016950005432
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 86 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2009950008923 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.