A704 crash in West Lothian on 7 November 2018 at 12:16 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A704 in West Lothian at 12:16 on Wednesday 7 November 2018. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2018
- Wednesday, 12:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.84046, longitude -3.59557, in the EH55 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lothian
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018950001517
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 704
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 1997.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 3 September 1997
13 m awayRef 1997950927397
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 1 March 2013
14 m awayRef 2013950001146
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 28 April 2019
16 m awayRef 2019950000504
Slight
Van crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 15 June 2000
26 m awayRef 2000950005449
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 7 July 2023
27 m awayRef 2023991326819
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A704 in West Lothian, 4 September 2020
33 m awayRef 2020990978069
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018950001517 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.