B1348 crash in East Lothian on 18 October 2019 at 11:23 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B1348 in East Lothian at 11:23 on Friday 18 October 2019. An 85-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2019
- Friday, 11:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97217, longitude -2.94662, in the EH32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cockenzie and Port Seton.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019950890560
- Council area
- East Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1348
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 2012.
Slight
Transbus Int crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 20 March 2012
13 m awayRef 2012950001642
Slight
Car crash on the B1348 in East Lothian, 19 May 1984
43 m awayRef 198495584E046
Serious
MCW crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 17 November 2006
58 m awayRef 2006950010307
Slight
Leyland crash on the B1348 in East Lothian, 14 February 1994
78 m awayRef 1994950243894
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 20 April 2014
92 m awayRef 2014950002155
Serious
Volkswagen Bora crash on an unclassified road in East Lothian, 23 July 2013
95 m awayRef 2013950003976
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 85, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019950890560 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 2019.