A704 crash in West Lothian on 19 February 2010 at 19:45 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira crashed on the A704 in West Lothian at 19:45 on Friday 19 February 2010. The 43-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Feb 2010
- Friday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.82963, longitude -3.61891, in the EH55 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950001305
- 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
- 704
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 June 2010.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 18 June 2010
At the same spotRef 2010950004349
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 16 September 2004
At the same spotRef 2004950007960
Serious
Rover 25 crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 12 January 2012
At the same spotRef 2012950000224
Serious
Leyland DAF FT 85CF crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 10 August 2001
At the same spotRef 2001950006910
Serious
Mercedes 200 crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 8 June 1998
At the same spotRef 1998950554298
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 24 May 1997
At the same spotRef 1997950533397
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
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 2010950001305 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 2010.