A71 crash in West Lothian on 8 January 2008 at 21:27 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on the A71 in West Lothian at 21:27 on Tuesday 8 January 2008. The 19-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 2008
- Tuesday, 21:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84192, longitude -3.59978, in the EH55 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950000258
- 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
- 71
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2003.
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Audi A6 crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 19 September 2025
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Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 2 December 2003
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Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 17 March 1995
162 m awayRef 1995950293595
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Ford Escort crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 18 May 1994
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 2008950000258 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 2008.