A71 crash in West Lothian on 18 May 1994 at 17:50 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A71 in West Lothian at 17:50 on Wednesday 18 May 1994. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 1994
- Wednesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84254, longitude -3.59723, in the EH55 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994950546794
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 71
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 17 March 1995
14 m awayRef 1995950293595
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 15 April 2018
52 m awayRef 2018950000496
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 25 June 2018
59 m awayRef 2018950000816
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 2 December 2003
81 m awayRef 2003950010039
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Audi A6 crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 19 September 2025
88 m awayRef 2025991643750
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 7 November 2017
91 m awayRef 2017950002371
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 1994950546794 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 1994.