Serious B792 crash in West Lothian on 30 March 2019 at 02:20 involving an Audi TT
An Audi TT crashed on the B792 in West Lothian at 02:20 on Saturday 30 March 2019. The 28-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 29-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Mar 2019
- Saturday, 02:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi TT
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.85157, longitude -3.61723, in the EH55 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019950000358
- 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
- 792
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 7015
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 1991.
Slight
Volkswagen crash on the B792 in West Lothian, 22 November 1991
4 m awayRef 1991951347691
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B792 in West Lothian, 5 May 1992
6 m awayRef 1992950521692
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B792 in West Lothian, 21 July 1997
6 m awayRef 1997950745397
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B792 in West Lothian, 2 March 2001
6 m awayRef 2001950002096
Slight
Mini One crash on the B792 in West Lothian, 14 February 2004
38 m awayRef 2004950001409
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B792 in West Lothian, 20 June 2002
40 m awayRef 2002950005466
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi TT
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi TT)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi TT)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2019950000358 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 2019.