B1347 crash in East Lothian on 2 October 2010 at 14:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B1347 in East Lothian at 14:05 on Saturday 2 October 2010. The 43-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 2010
- Saturday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.01366, longitude -2.73458, in the EH39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950007485
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1347
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2021.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 10 May 2021
28 m awayRef 2021991044217
Slight
Van crash on the A6105 in East Lothian, 14 July 1979
64 m awayRef 197995779G016
Serious
Car crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 29 July 1979
102 m awayRef 197995779E055
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 17 February 2004
153 m awayRef 2004950001444
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 19 August 2006
354 m awayRef 2006950007242
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B1347 in East Lothian, 3 October 2004
498 m awayRef 2004950008503
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,064 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 43, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2010950007485 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 2010.