A198 crash in East Lothian on 4 October 2014 at 11:20 involving a Scania bus
A car and a Scania bus were involved in a crash on the A198 in East Lothian at 11:20 on Saturday 4 October 2014. The 53-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 2014
- Saturday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.05659, longitude -2.7261, 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
- 2014950005041
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 20 March 2016
1 m awayRef 2016950001695
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 25 July 2008
2 m awayRef 2008950006670
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 11 June 2000
9 m awayRef 2000950005274
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 30 May 2002
19 m awayRef 2002950004826
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 18 March 2018
21 m awayRef 2018950000341
Slight
Car crash on the A198 in East Lothian, 14 January 1992
34 m awayRef 1992950052292
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
Vehicle 2: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2014950005041 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.