A704 crash in West Lothian on 21 October 2015 at 07:50 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A704 in West Lothian at 07:50 on Wednesday 21 October 2015. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2015
- Wednesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.83607, longitude -3.60193, in the EH55 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015950004725
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 704
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 2009.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 20 August 2009
3 m awayRef 2009950006275
Slight
Car crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 11 April 2015
7 m awayRef 2015950001765
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 31 March 2017
9 m awayRef 2017950001096
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 17 December 1995
11 m awayRef 1995951339495
Serious
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 22 August 1998
11 m awayRef 1998950819198
Serious
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 7 July 2024
74 m awayRef 2024991464570
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2015950004725 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.