A70 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 25 May 1982 at 16:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:20 on Tuesday 25 May 1982. A 40-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
- 25 May 1982
- Tuesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94355, longitude -3.21966, in the EH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198295582C042
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 70
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 25 April 1986.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 April 1986
At the same spotRef 198695486C027
Slight
Van crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198195381C054
Slight
Bus crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198795387C023
Slight
Bedford crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 24 June 1997
At the same spotRef 1997950649497
Serious
Car crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 February 1982
At the same spotRef 198295282C013
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A70 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 February 2025
7 m awayRef 2025991574427
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 198295582C042 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 1982.