B8084 crash in West Lothian on 14 October 1997 at 09:45 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 crashed on the B8084 in West Lothian at 09:45 on Tuesday 14 October 1997. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 1997
- Tuesday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 309
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88265, longitude -3.68888, in the EH48 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997951063797
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8084
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a fatal crash on 27 October 1997.
Fatal
Ford Capri crash on the B8084 in West Lothian, 27 October 1997
57 m awayRef 1997951111397
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B8084 in West Lothian, 7 October 2020
94 m awayRef 2020990987952
Slight
Car crash on the B8084 in West Lothian, 5 July 1994
99 m awayRef 1994950721794
Slight
Car crash on the B8084 in West Lothian, 27 January 2023
109 m awayRef 2023991269201
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B8084 in West Lothian, 3 February 2001
156 m awayRef 2001950001167
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B8084 in West Lothian, 10 September 2008
156 m awayRef 2008950007477
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
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 1997951063797 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 1997.