A6137 crash in East Lothian on 16 March 2016 at 09:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A6137 in East Lothian at 09:30 on Wednesday 16 March 2016. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2016
- Wednesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 56.00905, longitude -2.83661, in the EH32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016950001601
- 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
- 6137
- 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
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 123 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2009.
Slight
Porsche Boxster crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 15 October 2009
123 m awayRef 2009950007726
Serious
Car crash on the A6137 in East Lothian, 16 March 2006
133 m awayRef 2006950002341
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Lothian, 15 March 1979
157 m awayRef 197995379E047
Fatal
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 20 February 2009
163 m awayRef 2009950001281
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Lothian, 18 January 2008
187 m awayRef 2008950000529
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 6 December 2019
204 m awayRef 2019950906907
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2016950001601 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.