A801 crash in West Lothian on 3 September 2007 at 14:10 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A801 in West Lothian at 14:10 on Monday 3 September 2007. The 29-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris and the 19-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Sep 2007
- Monday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88064, longitude -3.66164, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007950008362
- 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
- 801
- Road type
- Roundabout
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 1992.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A801 in West Lothian, 20 June 1992
At the same spotRef 1992950700092
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A706 in West Lothian, 2 February 1998
At the same spotRef 1998950118398
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A7066 in West Lothian, 15 December 1995
At the same spotRef 1995951343795
Serious
Renault Trafic crash on the A801 in West Lothian, 30 January 2022
6 m awayRef 2022991138578
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the A801 in West Lothian, 15 April 2019
7 m awayRef 2019950000547
Serious
Isuzu D-Max crash on the A801 in West Lothian, 25 August 2025
8 m awayRef 2025991632944
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
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 2007950008362 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.