Unclassified road crash in West Lothian EH47 on 17 April 2017 at 15:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Lothian at 15:00 on Monday 17 April 2017. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Apr 2017
- Monday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87861, longitude -3.5874, in the EH47 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017950001351
- 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
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2000.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 23 August 2000
38 m awayRef 2000950007631
Serious
Nissan Note crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 4 September 2017
53 m awayRef 2017950001949
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 31 October 2006
70 m awayRef 2006950009691
Slight
Chevrolet Cruze crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 20 February 2014
76 m awayRef 2014950001009
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 2 February 2003
87 m awayRef 2003950001179
Serious
Car crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 3 November 1987
99 m awayRef 198795N87F002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2017950001351 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.