B8046 crash in West Lothian on 20 January 1989 at 18:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B8046 in West Lothian at 18:00 on Friday 20 January 1989. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 1989
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91181, longitude -3.498, in the EH53 postcode district and within the built-up area of Livingston.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198995189F019
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8046
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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 slight injury crash on 20 December 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the B8046 in West Lothian, 20 December 2005
At the same spotRef 2005950011523
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on the B8046 in West Lothian, 26 October 2023
8 m awayRef 2023991367489
Serious
Car crash on the A767 in West Lothian, 15 August 1979
10 m awayRef 197995879F013
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 10 November 2004
14 m awayRef 2004950009946
Slight
Car crash on the A767 in West Lothian, 3 February 1981
14 m awayRef 198195281F028
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 14 September 2015
21 m awayRef 2015950004110
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,315 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198995189F019 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 1989.