A89 crash in West Lothian on 5 April 2004 at 15:00 involving a Ford Escort van
A Ford Escort van crashed on the A89 in West Lothian at 15:00 on Monday 5 April 2004. The 41-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 2004
- Monday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91999, longitude -3.53114, in the EH52 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Livingston North, West Lothian, EH54 8FL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004950002850
- 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
- 89
- 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
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 July 2014.
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A89 in West Lothian, 23 July 2014
22 m awayRef 2014950004040
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A89 in West Lothian, 19 May 2018
32 m awayRef 2018950000646
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A89 in West Lothian, 2 December 1992
45 m awayRef 1992951430192
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A89 in West Lothian, 15 November 2012
71 m awayRef 2012950006420
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A89 in West Lothian, 10 March 1980
73 m awayRef 198095380F007
Slight
Car crash on the A89 in West Lothian, 14 February 2000
133 m awayRef 2000950001521
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 2004950002850 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.