A1 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 16 December 1984 at 07:17 involving a car
A car crashed on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh at 07:17 on Sunday 16 December 1984. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 1984
- Sunday, 07:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.94632, longitude -3.08684, in the EH15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198495D84D019
- 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
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 10 October 1979
10 m awayRef 197995O79D007
Serious
Bus crash on the A199 in the City of Edinburgh, 2 May 1988
20 m awayRef 198895588D002
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A199 in the City of Edinburgh, 7 October 2019
20 m awayRef 2019950885357
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 August 1980
30 m awayRef 198095880D010
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 13 January 1983
32 m awayRef 198395183D006
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in the City of Edinburgh, 5 December 1979
45 m awayRef 197995D79D003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- 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
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 198495D84D019 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.