A1 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 17 July 1982 at 02:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh at 02:45 on Saturday 17 July 1982. The 24-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
- 17 Jul 1982
- Saturday, 02:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.952, longitude -3.14418, in the EH8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198295782D010
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2015.
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 May 2015
10 m awayRef 2015950002173
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 February 1997
14 m awayRef 1997950175697
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 29 December 1984
14 m awayRef 198495D84D029
Fatal
Scania crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 10 September 1991
14 m awayRef 1991951012891
Slight
Transbus Int crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 14 May 2018
14 m awayRef 2018950000632
Slight
Honda XL125V crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 16 July 2007
14 m awayRef 2007950006142
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, 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 198295782D010 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.