A70 crash in West Lothian on 2 June 2007 at 05:50 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on the A70 in West Lothian at 05:50 on Saturday 2 June 2007. A 23-year-old female passenger and a 29-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jun 2007
- Saturday, 05:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.80871, longitude -3.51177, in the EH55 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950004984
- 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
- 70
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 42%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 58%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 2014.
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the B7008 in West Lothian, 28 October 2014
13 m awayRef 2014950005459
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 2 April 2000
32 m awayRef 2000950003080
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in West Lothian, 23 October 1986
32 m awayRef 198695O86F028
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B7008 in West Lothian, 12 June 2009
32 m awayRef 2009950004544
Slight
Car crash on the A70 in West Lothian, 19 December 2000
32 m awayRef 2000950011818
Serious
Seat Leon crash on the A70 in West Lothian, 20 August 2023
35 m awayRef 2023991343669
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2007950004984 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 2007.