A899 crash in West Lothian on 12 March 2010 at 15:50 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the A899 in West Lothian at 15:50 on Friday 12 March 2010. A 21-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2010
- Friday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93354, longitude -3.48061, in the EH52 postcode district and within the built-up area of Broxburn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broxburn, Uphall and Winchburgh, West Lothian, EH52 5RL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010950002002
- 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
- 899
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 24 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198495784F023
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 9 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198795987F015
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 12 July 2018
5 m awayRef 2018950000916
Serious
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 20 February 2023
5 m awayRef 2023991278959
Serious
Car crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 26 February 1982
10 m awayRef 198295282F030
Slight
Scania crash on the A899 in West Lothian, 26 November 2013
10 m awayRef 2013950006454
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2010950002002 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.