Serious A705 crash in West Lothian on 14 May 2008 at 17:30 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 hit a pedestrian on the A705 in West Lothian at 17:30 on Wednesday 14 May 2008. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 May 2008
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89862, longitude -3.50743, in the EH54 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Livingston and East Calder, West Lothian, EH54 5BN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008950004163
- 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
- Urban
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 2017.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A899 in the Scottish Borders, 11 September 2017
23 m awayRef 2017950001991
Serious
Ford Galaxy crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 8 November 2014
31 m awayRef 2014950005651
Serious
Car crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 13 December 1984
36 m awayRef 198495D84F033
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 6 November 2012
36 m awayRef 2012950006214
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 20 May 2014
81 m awayRef 2014950004375
Slight
Car crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 28 January 1988
81 m awayRef 198895188F044
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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2008950004163 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.