B6363 crash in East Lothian on 16 February 2016 at 20:15 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on the B6363 in East Lothian at 20:15 on Tuesday 16 February 2016. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2016
- Tuesday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94577, longitude -2.87876, in the EH33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016950001096
- 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
- 6363
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 August 1980.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6363 in East Lothian, 26 August 1980
20 m awayRef 198095880E038
Slight
Renault 21 crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 15 March 2002
33 m awayRef 2002950002521
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B6363 in East Lothian, 24 June 2010
124 m awayRef 2010950004521
Serious
Car crash on the B6363 in East Lothian, 24 March 1999
133 m awayRef 1999950291299
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6363 in East Lothian, 3 October 1994
334 m awayRef 1994951061594
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A199 in East Lothian, 25 June 2007
355 m awayRef 2007950005443
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2016950001096 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 2016.