B1348 crash in East Lothian on 14 May 2015 at 15:00 involving a Peugeot Bipper van
A Peugeot Bipper van hit a pedestrian on the B1348 in East Lothian at 15:00 on Thursday 14 May 2015. An 81-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 2015
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Bipper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95895, longitude -2.98597, in the EH32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Prestonpans. It is one of the crashes that make up the Preston, Seton and Gosford, East Lothian, EH32 9NQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950002299
- 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
- 1348
- 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
- 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
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the B1348 in East Lothian, 4 October 1987
1 m awayRef 198795O87E006
Slight
Bus crash on the B1348 in East Lothian, 22 August 1989
10 m awayRef 198995889E053
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B1348 in East Lothian, 14 May 2010
15 m awayRef 2010950003478
Slight
Car crash on the B1348 in East Lothian, 21 September 2018
21 m awayRef 2018950001384
Serious
Car crash on the B1348 in East Lothian, 24 June 1983
23 m awayRef 198395683E029
Slight
Car crash on the B1348 in East Lothian, 26 May 2014
29 m awayRef 2014950002848
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Bipper
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 81, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot Bipper)
- 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 2015950002299 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 2015.