B7031 crash in West Lothian on 13 April 1982 at 02:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B7031 in West Lothian at 02:30 on Tuesday 13 April 1982. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Apr 1982
- Tuesday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87954, longitude -3.41539, in the EH27 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198295482F038
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7031
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 June 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the B7031 in West Lothian, 20 June 1983
28 m awayRef 198395683F019
Serious
Car crash on the B7031 in West Lothian, 18 November 1987
64 m awayRef 198795N87F039
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B7031 in West Lothian, 7 April 2017
69 m awayRef 2017950001141
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B7031 in West Lothian, 13 September 2001
71 m awayRef 2001950008035
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B7031 in West Lothian, 17 December 2003
71 m awayRef 2003950010655
Serious
Car crash on the B7031 in West Lothian, 2 July 1982
71 m awayRef 198295782F004
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 198295482F038 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 1982.