Council area · Scotland
East Lothian road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 406 injury collisions in East Lothian's highway authority area, 155 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 406
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 527
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 9
- 146 serious, 251 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 51%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, East Lothian recorded 24 fatal or serious collisions, 23% below its average of 31 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 32 | 58 | 90 | 113 |
32
|
| 2022 | 4 | 40 | 59 | 103 | 143 |
44
|
| 2023 | 3 | 29 | 51 | 83 | 113 |
32
|
| 2024 | 2 | 21 | 38 | 61 | 78 |
23
|
| 2025 | 0 | 24 | 45 | 69 | 80 |
24
|
| 2021–2025 | 9 | 146 | 251 | 406 | 527 | 155 |
Casualties by road user
527 people were hurt in these collisions: 9 killed, 154 seriously injured and 364 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 51% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 71 | 13.5% | 30 | 18.4% |
| Pedal cyclists | 70 | 13.3% | 20 | 12.3% |
| Motorcyclists | 59 | 11.2% | 33 | 20.2% |
| All road users | 527 | 100% | 163 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in East Lothian, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A1 68 collisions · 23 fatal or serious
- A199 57 collisions · 23 fatal or serious
- A198 28 collisions · 12 fatal or serious
- B6371 22 collisions · 8 fatal or serious
- A6093 14 collisions · 7 fatal or serious
- B1377 12 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
- B1348 12 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
- A6094 10 collisions · 4 fatal or serious
- B1347 9 collisions · 1 fatal or serious
- B6454 6 collisions · 2 fatal or serious
Areas within East Lothian
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from East Lothian
The council's road safety or traffic team holds the full police records for its area. A formal extract can add what the published data leaves out: contributory factors, the officer's description of each collision and the current year's provisional records. Developers, consultants and solicitors usually pay for it.
Check East Lothian's website for current fees, or contact its road safety team. Councils usually charge for extracts and send a quote before they start.
Source: Department for Transport road safety data (STATS19), 2021–2025, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Collisions are counted against the local highway authority area recorded by the police. Casualty severities are as recorded at the time and are not adjusted.