A7 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 29 December 1984 at 19:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh at 19:25 on Saturday 29 December 1984. A 25-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1984
- Saturday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91158, longitude -3.14234, in the EH17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198495D84A030
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 7
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 2000.
Slight
Bus crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 July 2000
At the same spotRef 2000950005998
Serious
Volvo crash on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh, 3 March 2024
11 m awayRef 2024991433674
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 August 2009
14 m awayRef 2009950005927
Slight
Bus crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 8 December 1980
14 m awayRef 198095D80A003
Slight
Volvo crash on the A772 in the City of Edinburgh, 9 February 2018
14 m awayRef 2018950000182
Slight
Dennis crash on the A7 in the City of Edinburgh, 3 May 2002
22 m awayRef 2002950003978
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198495D84A030 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 1984.