B6414 crash in East Lothian on 20 August 2012 at 18:15 involving a MAN bus
A MAN bus hit a pedestrian on the B6414 in East Lothian at 18:15 on Monday 20 August 2012. A 39-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Aug 2012
- Monday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- MAN
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91649, longitude -2.99642, in the EH21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012950004573
- 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
- 6414
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 February 2012.
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the B6414 in East Lothian, 21 February 2012
32 m awayRef 2012950001074
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6414 in East Lothian, 23 May 2003
54 m awayRef 2003950004279
Serious
Dacia Sandero crash on the B6414 in East Lothian, 7 December 2022
214 m awayRef 2022991254260
Slight
Car crash on the B6414 in East Lothian, 10 February 2011
220 m awayRef 2011950001034
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6414 in East Lothian, 21 January 1999
295 m awayRef 1999950069399
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6414 in East Lothian, 12 August 2014
301 m awayRef 2014950004422
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MAN
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Engine capacity
- 6,871 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (MAN)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2012950004573 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.