Unclassified road crash in West Lothian EH54 on 8 March 1988 at 17:00 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian at 17:00 on Tuesday 8 March 1988. The 55-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Mar 1988
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88724, longitude -3.55909, in the EH54 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198895388F005
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 16 December 1992.
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 16 December 1992
At the same spotRef 1992951498792
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 11 November 1982
10 m awayRef 198295N82F011
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 22 March 1982
10 m awayRef 198295382F034
Serious
Car crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 11 January 1985
10 m awayRef 198595185F034
Serious
Van crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 27 April 1987
10 m awayRef 198795487F031
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 8 September 1990
20 m awayRef 1990951112790
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, 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 198895388F005 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 1988.