Serious A7066 crash in West Lothian on 15 July 2004 at 21:20 involving a Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle crashed on the A7066 in West Lothian at 21:20 on Thursday 15 July 2004. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jul 2004
- Thursday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSXR 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88067, longitude -3.65989, in the EH48 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitburn and Blackburn, West Lothian, EH48 2HU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004950005948
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 7066
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 801
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A7066 in West Lothian, 10 March 2005
At the same spotRef 2005950002218
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A706 in West Lothian, 19 July 2008
At the same spotRef 2008950006553
Slight
MAN crash on the A7066 in West Lothian, 13 December 2005
At the same spotRef 2005950011211
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A7066 in West Lothian, 2 August 2014
6 m awayRef 2014950004239
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A7066 in West Lothian, 20 October 2015
9 m awayRef 2015950004700
Serious
Car crash on the A7066 in West Lothian, 12 December 2007
10 m awayRef 2007950010630
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 600
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 600)
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 2004950005948 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.