Unclassified road crash in West Lothian EH52 on 23 March 2015 at 13:04 involving a Citroen C2
A Citroen C2 crashed on an unclassified road in West Lothian at 13:04 on Monday 23 March 2015. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2015
- Monday, 13:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91691, longitude -3.5732, in the EH52 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950001254
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 52%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 48%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 2017.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 24 March 2017
23 m awayRef 2017950001077
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 10 March 2012
99 m awayRef 2012950001464
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 30 August 1985
107 m awayRef 198595885F062
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 17 October 2009
111 m awayRef 2009950007783
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 29 May 2003
115 m awayRef 2003950004403
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 16 June 2009
115 m awayRef 2009950004583
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- 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 2015950001254 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 2015.