A704 crash in West Lothian on 29 July 2000 at 08:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the A704 in West Lothian at 08:05 on Saturday 29 July 2000. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jul 2000
- Saturday, 08:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82329, longitude -3.64292, in the EH55 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950006714
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 704
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 30 September 1996
At the same spotRef 1996950990696
Slight
Car crash on the A702 in Midlothian, 18 October 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950009407
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 15 December 2005
At the same spotRef 2005950011287
Fatal
Mini Cooper crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 4 July 2017
4 m awayRef 2017950001638
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 29 July 2013
8 m awayRef 2013950003940
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 23 November 1997
10 m awayRef 1997951228497
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, 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 2000950006714 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 2000.