A800 crash in West Lothian on 31 October 1997 at 19:00 involving a Fiat Uno
A Fiat Uno crashed on the A800 in West Lothian at 19:00 on Friday 31 October 1997. The 53-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 1997
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Uno
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91763, longitude -3.6744, in the EH48 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997951127697
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 800
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 49 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 2014.
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A800 in West Lothian, 18 August 2014
49 m awayRef 2014950004499
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A800 in West Lothian, 27 May 2005
73 m awayRef 2005950004523
Serious
Subaru Impreza crash on the A800 in West Lothian, 10 May 2006
76 m awayRef 2006950004074
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the A800 in West Lothian, 7 December 2012
82 m awayRef 2012950006911
Slight
Car crash on the A800 in West Lothian, 18 September 2011
106 m awayRef 2011950006177
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A801 in West Lothian, 14 June 2012
211 m awayRef 2012950003376
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Uno)
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 1997951127697 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.