A705 crash in West Lothian on 14 August 2007 at 08:50 involving a Suzuki GZ 125 motorcycle
A Suzuki GZ 125 motorcycle crashed on the A705 in West Lothian at 08:50 on Tuesday 14 August 2007. The 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2007
- Tuesday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GZ 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88021, longitude -3.58569, in the EH47 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950007178
- 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
- 705
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 2022.
Slight
Nissan NV200 crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 27 May 2022
40 m awayRef 2022991183173
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 13 June 2011
50 m awayRef 2011950003934
Slight
Lorry crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 30 July 1981
64 m awayRef 198195781F041
Slight
Van crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 29 March 1984
64 m awayRef 198495384F042
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 3 June 1994
64 m awayRef 1994950612994
Slight
Car crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 15 August 1989
72 m awayRef 198995889F023
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GZ 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GZ 125)
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 2007950007178 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.