A706 crash in West Lothian on 31 October 2016 at 20:00 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander and a Seat Leon were involved in a crash on the A706 in West Lothian at 20:00 on Monday 31 October 2016. The 25-year-old female driver of the Seat Leon was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2016
- Monday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Freelander and Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87378, longitude -3.67956, in the EH48 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016950005134
- 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
- 706
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 October 2020.
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A706 in West Lothian, 13 October 2020
6 m awayRef 2020990989654
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A706 in West Lothian, 23 March 1998
11 m awayRef 1998950294298
Slight
Renault 11 crash on the B7066 in West Lothian, 6 December 1996
61 m awayRef 1996951294496
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on the A706 in West Lothian, 10 January 2015
171 m awayRef 2015950000075
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A706 in West Lothian, 15 August 2019
195 m awayRef 2019950868622
Fatal
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A706 in West Lothian, 25 October 2019
224 m awayRef 2019950892011
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Leon)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 2016950005134 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.