Unclassified road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH7 on 11 May 1979 at 16:55 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh at 16:55 on Friday 11 May 1979. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 May 1979
- Friday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.95963, longitude -3.18332, in the EH7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197995579B006
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 900
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 1999.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 14 February 1999
At the same spotRef 1999950164899
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 May 2006
10 m awayRef 2006950003831
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 April 2004
10 m awayRef 2004950003308
Fatal
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 28 September 2025
10 m awayRef 2025991648865
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 15 February 2007
10 m awayRef 2007950001465
Slight
Taxi crash on the A900 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 November 1983
10 m awayRef 198395N83B032
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 197995579B006 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the City of Edinburgh road accident statistics for 1979.