A704 crash in West Lothian on 14 February 2016 at 10:25 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera crashed on the A704 in West Lothian at 10:25 on Sunday 14 February 2016. The 65-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 2016
- Sunday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84035, longitude -3.59604, 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
- 2016950001003
- 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
- Frost or ice
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2023.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 7 July 2023
6 m awayRef 2023991326819
Slight
Van crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 22 January 2001
22 m awayRef 2001950000743
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 24 December 2016
31 m awayRef 2016950006000
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 7 November 2018
33 m awayRef 2018950001517
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 15 September 2014
35 m awayRef 2014950004836
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 3 September 1997
42 m awayRef 1997950927397
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Almera)
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 2016950001003 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 2016.