Unclassified road crash in West Lothian EH52 on 15 February 2005 at 07:43 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara crashed on an unclassified road in West Lothian at 07:43 on Tuesday 15 February 2005. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2005
- Tuesday, 07:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.92343, longitude -3.52888, in the EH52 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Livingston North, West Lothian, EH54 8FL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950001422
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 26 August 1982
At the same spotRef 198295882F056
Slight
Car crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 12 November 1980
At the same spotRef 198095N80F010
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 25 January 2003
10 m awayRef 2003950000750
Serious
Car crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 20 September 1982
10 m awayRef 198295982F032
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 2 December 1996
10 m awayRef 1996951274896
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 18 September 1995
10 m awayRef 1995950959595
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
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 2005950001422 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 2005.