A704 crash in West Lothian on 22 January 2001 at 17:25 involving a van
A van crashed on the A704 in West Lothian at 17:25 on Monday 22 January 2001. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 2001
- Monday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84017, longitude -3.5962, in the EH55 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001950000743
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2016.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 24 December 2016
11 m awayRef 2016950006000
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 15 September 2014
15 m awayRef 2014950004836
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 14 February 2016
22 m awayRef 2016950001003
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 7 July 2023
26 m awayRef 2023991326819
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 7 November 2018
53 m awayRef 2018950001517
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 3 September 1997
64 m awayRef 1997950927397
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 2001950000743 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 2001.