Unclassified road crash in West Lothian EH52 on 24 March 2017 at 14:25 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in West Lothian at 14:25 on Friday 24 March 2017. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2017
- Friday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.917, longitude -3.57286, in the EH52 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017950001077
- 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
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2015.
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 23 March 2015
23 m awayRef 2015950001254
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 10 March 2012
76 m awayRef 2012950001464
Serious
Citroen Xantia crash on the A8 in West Lothian, 21 November 2006
121 m awayRef 2006950010484
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 30 August 1985
130 m awayRef 198595885F062
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 17 October 2009
134 m awayRef 2009950007783
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 29 May 2003
139 m awayRef 2003950004403
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017950001077 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 2017.