A903 crash in the City of Edinburgh on 10 September 1985 at 16:35 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A903 in the City of Edinburgh at 16:35 on Tuesday 10 September 1985. The 32-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Sep 1985
- Tuesday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.97414, longitude -3.21517, in the EH5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Edinburgh.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198595985B010
- Council area
- City of Edinburgh
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 903
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A903 in the City of Edinburgh, 25 March 2002
10 m awayRef 2002950002838
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A903 in the City of Edinburgh, 23 August 1987
10 m awayRef 198795887B045
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A903 in the City of Edinburgh, 16 October 1984
10 m awayRef 198495O84B010
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A903 in the City of Edinburgh, 28 May 2013
10 m awayRef 2013950002818
Slight
Car crash on the A903 in the City of Edinburgh, 20 April 2015
10 m awayRef 2015950001856
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A903 in the City of Edinburgh, 27 March 1981
30 m awayRef 198195381B042
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198595985B010 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.