A902 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 25 October 1979 at 15:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh at 15:50 on Thursday 25 October 1979. The 47-year-old male driver 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
- 25 Oct 1979
- Thursday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94151, longitude -3.31294, in the EH12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197995O79C062
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 902
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 2017.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 July 2017
At the same spotRef 2017950001689
Slight
Car crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 July 1979
At the same spotRef 197995779C028
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 July 2017
At the same spotRef 2017950001759
Slight
Car crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 June 1983
At the same spotRef 198395683C017
Slight
Honda Prelude crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 August 2005
At the same spotRef 2005950007034
Slight
Toyota Hiace crash on the A902 in the City of Edinburgh, 15 July 2016
At the same spotRef 2016950003462
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, 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 197995O79C062 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.