Council area · Scotland
West Lothian road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 782 injury collisions in West Lothian's highway authority area, 283 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 782
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 1,151
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 22
- 261 serious, 499 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 42%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, West Lothian recorded 63 fatal or serious collisions, 11% above its average of 57 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 57 | 107 | 169 | 252 |
62
|
| 2022 | 7 | 51 | 116 | 174 | 265 |
58
|
| 2023 | 4 | 43 | 94 | 141 | 201 |
47
|
| 2024 | 2 | 51 | 80 | 133 | 185 |
53
|
| 2025 | 4 | 59 | 102 | 165 | 248 |
63
|
| 2021–2025 | 22 | 261 | 499 | 782 | 1,151 | 283 |
Casualties by road user
1,151 people were hurt in these collisions: 22 killed, 303 seriously injured and 826 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 42% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 132 | 11.5% | 66 | 20.3% |
| Pedal cyclists | 57 | 5.0% | 25 | 7.7% |
| Motorcyclists | 78 | 6.8% | 45 | 13.8% |
| All road users | 1,151 | 100% | 325 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in West Lothian, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- M8 88 collisions · 27 fatal or serious
- A89 58 collisions · 21 fatal or serious
- A71 44 collisions · 18 fatal or serious
- A899 39 collisions · 9 fatal or serious
- A706 31 collisions · 12 fatal or serious
- B7015 26 collisions · 7 fatal or serious
- A801 26 collisions · 12 fatal or serious
- A705 24 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
- B792 18 collisions · 7 fatal or serious
- B8046 17 collisions · 7 fatal or serious
Areas within West Lothian
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from West Lothian
The council's road safety or traffic team holds the full police records for its area. A formal extract can add what the published data leaves out: contributory factors, the officer's description of each collision and the current year's provisional records. Developers, consultants and solicitors usually pay for it.
Check West Lothian's website for current fees, or contact its road safety team. Councils usually charge for extracts and send a quote before they start.
Source: Department for Transport road safety data (STATS19), 2021–2025, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Collisions are counted against the local highway authority area recorded by the police. Casualty severities are as recorded at the time and are not adjusted.