C road crash in the City of Edinburgh EH3 on 14 May 1983 at 20:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in the City of Edinburgh at 20:15 on Saturday 14 May 1983. A 21-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 junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 1983
- Saturday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94389, longitude -3.20334, in the EH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198395583C025
- 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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 702
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 15 November 1997.
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 15 November 1997
At the same spotRef 1997951189597
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 22 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198795887C035
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 24 February 2014
At the same spotRef 2014950001080
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on an unclassified road in the City of Edinburgh, 23 June 2001
At the same spotRef 2001950005628
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A702 in the City of Edinburgh, 31 December 2015
At the same spotRef 2015950000009
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in the City of Edinburgh, 31 October 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950009815
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198395583C025 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 1983.