B7015 crash in West Lothian on 7 September 2014 at 13:55 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo hit a pedestrian on the B7015 in West Lothian at 13:55 on Sunday 7 September 2014. A 6-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 7 Sep 2014
- Sunday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84766, longitude -3.63064, 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
- 2014950004843
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 17 August 1992.
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B7015 in West Lothian, 17 August 1992
10 m awayRef 1992950935292
Serious
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the B7015 in West Lothian, 25 July 1991
24 m awayRef 1991950824391
Serious
Honda CR-V crash on the B7015 in West Lothian, 19 August 2022
28 m awayRef 2022991210872
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 15 April 1996
52 m awayRef 1996950381296
Serious
Rover Maestro crash on the B7015 in West Lothian, 8 November 1995
52 m awayRef 1995951174995
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 13 May 1999
82 m awayRef 1999950004538
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2014950004843 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.