B1346 crash in East Lothian on 30 April 2014 at 15:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus, a Daewoo Lanos and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the B1346 in East Lothian at 15:30 on Wednesday 30 April 2014. The 62-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Apr 2014
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Focus and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.05879, longitude -2.72617, in the EH39 postcode district and within the built-up area of North Berwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Berwick Coastal, East Lothian, EH39 4PQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950002407
- 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
- 1346
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 1982.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 6 December 1982
4 m awayRef 198295D82E004
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1346 in East Lothian, 5 March 1993
13 m awayRef 1993950258993
Serious
Car crash on a C road in East Lothian, 1 July 1982
15 m awayRef 198295782E006
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 22 November 1996
15 m awayRef 1996951220396
Serious
Car crash on the B1346 in East Lothian, 17 June 1988
15 m awayRef 198895688E023
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 13 July 1986
15 m awayRef 198695786E025
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Lanos
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,349 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 3: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2014950002407 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 2014.