A71 crash in West Lothian on 1 April 2009 at 08:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A71 in West Lothian at 08:10 on Wednesday 1 April 2009. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 2009
- Wednesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89, longitude -3.44697, in the EH53 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Livingston and East Calder, West Lothian, EH53 0UW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009950002567
- 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
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 August 2010.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 21 August 2010
14 m awayRef 2010950006018
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 28 November 2011
22 m awayRef 2011950007636
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 13 May 1998
22 m awayRef 1998950459998
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 31 December 2001
22 m awayRef 2001950011949
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 9 December 1998
28 m awayRef 1998951240498
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 16 December 2011
28 m awayRef 2011950008046
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2009950002567 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 2009.