A6124 crash in East Lothian on 15 July 2015 at 10:46 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A6124 in East Lothian at 10:46 on Wednesday 15 July 2015. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2015
- Wednesday, 10:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90704, longitude -3.007, in the EH22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950003624
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6124
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 31%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 69%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 48 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2001.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 15 December 2001
48 m awayRef 2001950011658
Slight
Car crash on the A6124 in Midlothian, 8 September 1985
164 m awayRef 198595985E010
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6124 in Midlothian, 6 May 2007
185 m awayRef 2007950003945
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A6124 in East Lothian, 7 February 2001
242 m awayRef 2001950001342
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on the A6124 in Midlothian, 2 October 2002
265 m awayRef 2002950008757
Slight
Yamaha MT07 crash on the A6124 in Midlothian, 5 June 2018
305 m awayRef 2018950000715
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2015950003624 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.