A899 crash in West Lothian on 19 July 1979 at 14:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A899 in West Lothian at 14:30 on Thursday 19 July 1979. A 72-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 1979
- Thursday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93015, longitude -3.50479, in the EH52 postcode district and within the built-up area of Uphall.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197995779F013
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 899
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2013.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 1 February 2013
9 m awayRef 2013950000588
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 23 January 2004
10 m awayRef 2004950000838
Serious
Lorry crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 7 August 1987
10 m awayRef 198795887F008
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 24 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198595D85F033
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 19 February 2006
10 m awayRef 2006950001564
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 26 April 1992
10 m awayRef 1992950480392
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 72, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 197995779F013 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lothian road accident statistics for 1979.