Unclassified road crash in West Lothian EH54 on 12 October 2013 at 11:25 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Peugeot Bipper van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian at 11:25 on Saturday 12 October 2013. A 5-year-old female passenger in the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2013
- Saturday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Peugeot Bipper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89246, longitude -3.49855, in the EH54 postcode district and within the built-up area of Livingston. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Livingston and East Calder, West Lothian, EH54 5BN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013950005760
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 April 1985.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 25 April 1985
2 m awayRef 198595485F043
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 26 May 1988
2 m awayRef 198895588F054
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 13 November 1985
2 m awayRef 198595N85F050
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 25 December 2016
10 m awayRef 2016950005997
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 2 January 1991
10 m awayRef 1991950004191
Slight
Lotus Elise crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 1 October 2007
10 m awayRef 2007950008395
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Bipper
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2013950005760 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 2013.