Serious B7015 crash in West Lothian on 26 February 1981 at 23:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B7015 in West Lothian at 23:30 on Thursday 26 February 1981. The 20-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Feb 1981
- Thursday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.86988, longitude -3.56782, in the EH55 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198195281F040
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7015
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2003.
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the B7015 in West Lothian, 12 May 2003
At the same spotRef 2003950003902
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the B7015 in West Lothian, 9 August 1997
At the same spotRef 1997950816197
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B7015 in West Lothian, 17 August 2017
6 m awayRef 2017950001867
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 12 November 2025
6 m awayRef 2025991667527
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B7015 in West Lothian, 6 June 1998
10 m awayRef 1998950546898
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the B7015 in West Lothian, 14 September 1998
14 m awayRef 1998950904298
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198195281F040 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 1981.