Unclassified road crash in West Lothian EH53 on 9 April 2018 at 17:00 involving a Peugeot Expert taxi
A Peugeot Expert taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Lothian at 17:00 on Monday 9 April 2018. A 5-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2018
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Expert
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.89063, longitude -3.46469, in the EH53 postcode district and within the built-up area of East Calder. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Livingston and East Calder, West Lothian, EH53 0EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018950000474
- 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
- Urban
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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 1990.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 15 March 1990
54 m awayRef 1990950346290
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 12 October 1986
54 m awayRef 198695O86F048
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 22 May 1997
60 m awayRef 1997950530197
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 19 December 2017
86 m awayRef 2017950002673
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 22 July 2010
89 m awayRef 2010950005268
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 14 May 1993
89 m awayRef 1993950525393
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Expert
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot Expert)
- 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 2018950000474 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 2018.