A89 crash in West Lothian on 19 December 1980 at 14:50 involving a lorry
A lorry hit a pedestrian on the A89 in West Lothian at 14:50 on Friday 19 December 1980. A 40-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1980
- Friday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198095D80F045
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 89
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 706
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
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)
- 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 198095D80F045 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 1980.