C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH16 on 9 June 1979 at 23:25 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 23:25 on Saturday 9 June 1979. The 57-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jun 1979
- Saturday, 23:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91855, longitude -3.16543, in the EH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197995679A022
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 July 1995.
Slight
Leyland crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 10 July 1995
At the same spotRef 1995950700495
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 22 November 1997
At the same spotRef 1997951216097
Serious
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 28 April 2021
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 20 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198595D85A035
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 19 April 2000
10 m awayRef 2000950003572
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 24 February 1980
10 m awayRef 198095280A019
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197995679A022 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.