A800 crash in West Lothian on 20 February 2004 at 16:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A800 in West Lothian at 16:10 on Friday 20 February 2004. The 55-year-old male driver 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
- 20 Feb 2004
- Friday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.90776, longitude -3.65624, in the EH48 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bathgate.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004950001576
- 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
- 800
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2003.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A800 in West Lothian, 24 May 2003
41 m awayRef 2003950004256
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 15 June 2001
64 m awayRef 2001950005331
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A800 in West Lothian, 9 August 1994
95 m awayRef 1994950845694
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A800 in West Lothian, 20 December 2010
173 m awayRef 2010950009501
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 11 October 2008
242 m awayRef 2008950008373
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 25 January 2001
248 m awayRef 2001950000844
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2004950001576 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 2004.