Unclassified road crash in West Lothian EH54 on 6 October 2018 at 21:00 involving an Alfa Romeo Mito
An Alfa Romeo Mito hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Lothian at 21:00 on Saturday 6 October 2018. A 32-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 2018
- Saturday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alfa Romeo Mito
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.912, longitude -3.52506, in the EH54 postcode district and within the built-up area of Livingston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Livingston North, West Lothian, EH54 8FL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018950001365
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 August 2022.
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 6 August 2022
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Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 20 July 1996
84 m awayRef 1996950720896
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 19 May 1995
98 m awayRef 1995950508795
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 6 April 1993
114 m awayRef 1993950379493
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 29 July 1999
149 m awayRef 1999950007096
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in West Lothian, 29 October 1993
164 m awayRef 1993951177793
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alfa Romeo Mito
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Alfa Romeo Mito)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2018950001365 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.