Serious unclassified road crash in West Lothian EH47 on 4 September 2017 at 11:00 involving a Nissan Note
A Nissan Note hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Lothian at 11:00 on Monday 4 September 2017. A 63-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Sep 2017
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Note
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.87847, longitude -3.58821, in the EH47 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017950001949
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2000.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 23 August 2000
15 m awayRef 2000950007631
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 17 April 2017
53 m awayRef 2017950001351
Slight
Bus crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 16 April 1987
57 m awayRef 198795487F036
Serious
Car crash on the A705 in West Lothian, 3 November 1987
57 m awayRef 198795N87F002
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 2 February 2003
60 m awayRef 2003950001179
Slight
Chevrolet Cruze crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 20 February 2014
65 m awayRef 2014950001009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,386 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 63, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Note)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2017950001949 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.