B900 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 31 August 1985 at 16:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B900 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:50 on Saturday 31 August 1985. A 79-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Aug 1985
- Saturday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.959, longitude -3.21134, in the EH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198595885B044
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 900
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 4 January 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B900 in the City of Edinburgh, 4 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198995189B002
Serious
Peugeot 108 crash on the B900 in the City of Edinburgh, 19 November 2020
6 m awayRef 2020991000019
Slight
Car crash on the B900 in the City of Edinburgh, 12 December 1979
10 m awayRef 197995D79B036
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B900 in the City of Edinburgh, 6 August 1997
10 m awayRef 1997950804397
Slight
Van crash on the B900 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 January 1979
10 m awayRef 197995179B016
Slight
Car crash on the B900 in the City of Edinburgh, 26 February 1983
10 m awayRef 198395283B026
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 79, 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 198595885B044 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 1985.