B8084 crash in West Lothian on 26 July 2017 at 15:46 involving an Audi A5
An Audi A5 crashed on the B8084 in West Lothian at 15:46 on Wednesday 26 July 2017. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2017
- Wednesday, 15:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.88042, longitude -3.68606, in the EH48 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017950001784
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 8084
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B8084 in West Lothian, 13 March 1992
10 m awayRef 1992950299692
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B8084 in West Lothian, 17 June 2006
10 m awayRef 2006950006912
Serious
Rover 25 crash on the B8084 in West Lothian, 22 November 2003
13 m awayRef 2003950009711
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the B8084 in West Lothian, 2 October 2005
21 m awayRef 2005950008580
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B8084 in West Lothian, 8 April 2014
27 m awayRef 2014950001933
Slight
MG ZR crash on the B8084 in West Lothian, 12 December 2003
42 m awayRef 2003950010454
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A5)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017950001784 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.