Serious B924 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 31 January 1981 at 00:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the B924 in the City of Edinburgh at 00:50 on Saturday 31 January 1981. The 42-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jan 1981
- Saturday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.98659, longitude -3.3648, in the EH30 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198195181F035
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 924
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 24 May 1984.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B924 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 May 1984
At the same spotRef 198495584F039
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the B924 in the City of Edinburgh, 21 May 2003
10 m awayRef 2003950004167
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B924 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 April 1993
14 m awayRef 1993950415093
Slight
Proton Proton crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 8 May 2003
14 m awayRef 2003950003786
Serious
Car crash on the B924 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 January 1991
22 m awayRef 1991950074591
Serious
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 24 April 2002
28 m awayRef 2002950003693
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- 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
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 42, 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 198195181F035 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 1981.