Unclassified road crash in West Lothian EH54 on 4 May 2015 at 19:42 involving a Peugeot Expert taxi
A Peugeot Expert taxi crashed on an unclassified road in West Lothian at 19:42 on Monday 4 May 2015. A 47-year-old male passenger 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
- 4 May 2015
- Monday, 19:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Expert
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88122, longitude -3.49024, in the EH54 postcode district and within the built-up area of Livingston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Livingston South, West Lothian, EH54 6JH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950002098
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2014.
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Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 24 August 1993
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Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 23 September 2002
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A71 in West Lothian, 9 March 2007
62 m awayRef 2007950002243
Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Expert
Taxi or private hire 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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 47, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Expert)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2015950002098 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.