Unclassified road crash in West Lothian EH48 on 7 September 2000 at 18:17 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian at 18:17 on Thursday 7 September 2000. The 10-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 2000
- Thursday, 18:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.8993, longitude -3.67716, in the EH48 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950008125
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 2000.
Slight
HGV crash on the A801 in West Lothian, 7 November 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950010108
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A801 in West Lothian, 7 March 2009
10 m awayRef 2009950001627
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A801 in West Lothian, 29 October 2017
20 m awayRef 2017950002667
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A801 in West Lothian, 15 December 2004
41 m awayRef 2004950011092
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A89 in West Lothian, 25 September 1994
51 m awayRef 1994951040194
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A801 in West Lothian, 28 May 2018
60 m awayRef 2018950000678
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 10, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2000950008125 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.