Unclassified road crash in West Lothian EH48 on 23 October 2000 at 16:50 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian at 16:50 on Monday 23 October 2000. The 24-year-old female driver of vehicle 1, a 12-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 and the 40-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2000
- Monday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89387, longitude -3.59936, in the EH48 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000950010345
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2017.
Slight
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Serious
Lorry crash on the M8 in West Lothian, 12 September 1989
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Slight
Car crash on the M8 in West Lothian, 8 December 1984
20 m awayRef 198495D84F011
Slight
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Slight
Lorry crash on the M8 in West Lothian, 21 February 1979
22 m awayRef 197995279F052
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2000950010345 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.