B7015 crash in West Lothian on 4 January 2014 at 22:15 involving a Kia Venga
A Kia Venga crashed on the B7015 in West Lothian at 22:15 on Saturday 4 January 2014. The 47-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
- 4 Jan 2014
- Saturday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Venga
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.83547, longitude -3.67554, in the EH47 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014950000133
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7015
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 2010.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 8 May 2010
60 m awayRef 2010950003334
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A706 in West Lothian, 16 April 2004
143 m awayRef 2004950003194
Serious
Austin Montego crash on the A706 in West Lothian, 14 November 1997
148 m awayRef 1997951179497
Slight
Van crash on the A706 in West Lothian, 22 June 2000
148 m awayRef 2000950005957
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A706 in West Lothian, 18 March 2009
151 m awayRef 2009950002336
Serious
Car crash on the A706 in West Lothian, 17 September 2000
151 m awayRef 2000950008400
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Venga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Venga)
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 2014950000133 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 2014.