A1 crash in East Lothian on 10 December 2015 at 00:45 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the A1 in East Lothian at 00:45 on Thursday 10 December 2015. The 46-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.9889, longitude -2.56234, in the EH42 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunbar and East Linton, East Lothian, EH42 1ST area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950005635
- 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
- 1
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6370
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 August 2013.
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 16 August 2013
3 m awayRef 2013950004104
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 10 August 2018
4 m awayRef 2018950001459
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 19 February 2022
4 m awayRef 2022991145297
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 31 August 2005
4 m awayRef 2005950007552
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 28 July 2023
6 m awayRef 2023991342057
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1 in East Lothian, 23 April 2021
6 m awayRef 2021991038430
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 2015950005635 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.