B1361 crash in East Lothian on 7 April 2012 at 23:30 involving a Citroen C2
A Citroen C2 crashed on the B1361 in East Lothian at 23:30 on Saturday 7 April 2012. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 2012
- Saturday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9449, longitude -3.00515, in the EH32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012950002007
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 2020.
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B1361 in East Lothian, 5 September 2020
11 m awayRef 2020990978341
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 16 June 1981
22 m awayRef 198195681E035
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B1361 in East Lothian, 13 July 2009
22 m awayRef 2009950005350
Slight
Car crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 8 February 1987
22 m awayRef 198795287E022
Slight
Alfa Romeo 155 crash on the B1361 in East Lothian, 19 January 2004
67 m awayRef 2004950000550
Serious
Kia Sportage crash on the B1361 in East Lothian, 16 August 2023
72 m awayRef 2023991342478
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C2
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
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
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 2012950002007 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 2012.