Serious A899 crash in West Lothian on 2 May 1987 at 01:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A899 in West Lothian at 01:10 on Saturday 2 May 1987. The 25-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 May 1987
- Saturday, 01:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92893, longitude -3.50954, in the EH52 postcode district and within the built-up area of Uphall.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198795587F010
- 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
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 26 June 2012.
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 26 June 2012
At the same spotRef 2012950003494
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 7 October 2020
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Slight
Yamaha MWS crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 22 September 2021
9 m awayRef 2021991092419
Slight
Car crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 28 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198595O85F038
Slight
Car crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 4 February 1981
10 m awayRef 198195281F012
Serious
Car crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 7 September 1988
10 m awayRef 198895988F013
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, 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 198795587F010 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 1987.